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Kuliah Mahmud Yunus berakhir dengan lancar, tahun 1929, ia berhasil memperoleh diploma dengan spesialisasi di bidang pendidikan. Setelah itu, dia kembali ke kampung halamannya di Sunggayang Batusangkar. Gerakan pembaruan di Minangkabau saat itu makin berkembang dan keadaan tersebut menggembirakan Mahmud Yunus untuk menghembuskan angin perubahan.
Muhammad Yunus is a and who was born on 28 June 1940. He was a of and is famous for his work in. Microcredit is a name for giving small. These loans are given to people with very little money. Most banks do not give microcredit.
Yunus started the. In 2006, Yunus and the bank together, were awarded the, 'for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.' Yunus himself has received several other national and international awards. He published a book called and helped start the. In 2007 Yunus planned to start a political group called Nagorik Shakti ('Citizen Power') in Bangladesh, but he has chosen not to start this group.
He is one of the founding members of. Muhammad Yunus at, while visiting the school in 2003.
Muhammad Yunus born on 28 June 1940. He was the third child born to a family in the village of near the in, (Bangladesh was called at that time).
Six more children were born in Muhammads family making nine altogether. His father was called Hazi Dula Mia Shoudagar, and worked as a. His mother was called Sofia Khatun. His early childhood years were spent in his village. In 1944, his family moved to the city of, and he went to Lamabazar Primary School. By 1949, his mother had a.
Muhammad went to and became the 16th best student out of 39,000 in. During his school years, he was a, and travelled to West Pakistan and India in 1952, and to in 1955 to attend. When Yunus was studying at, he won awards for drama acting. In 1957, he started studying at the department of of.
Chittagong College awarded him with a in 1960, and a in 1961. After his MA studies, Yunus became part of the Bureau of Economics as a research assistant for. In 1961 he was given work as a lecturer in economics in. During that time he started a factory. He was given a in 1965, to study in the. He was awarded his in economics from in the, in 1969.
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From 1969 to 1972, Yunus was an assistant professor of economics at in,. During the in 1971, Yunus and other people from Bangladesh living in the United States started a citizens committee and controlled the Bangladesh Information Center to find help for the war. He published the Bangladesh Newsletter from his home in.
After the War, Yunus returned to Bangladesh and was given a job with the governments' Planning Commission which was controlled. He thought the job was boring so he took a job at as Head of the Economics department. He worked with after he saw the, and started a research project to help people who lived in the countryside. In 1975, he starteded a Nabajug Tebhaga Khamar (new era three share farm) which the government called the Packaged Input Programme. Yunus and his friends started the Gram Sarkar (the village government) programme to make the farm project better.,(the president of India in the late 1970s), was in control of starting 40,392 village governments (gram sarkar) in 2003.
On 2 August 2005, after a by the Bangladesh Legal Aids and Services Trust (BLAST) the High Court had declared Gram Sarkar illegal and unconstitutional. Grameen Bank. Main page: In 1976, Yunus visited the poorest households in the village of Jobra near.
He discovered that very small loans could be a lot of help to a poor person. Some Jobra women were making furniture and had to take loans for buying bamboo but all their profits were being paid towards the loans.
The first loan Muhammad Yunus gave was 27.00 from his pocket. This $27 was loaned to 42 women in the village, who made a profit of $00.02 each from the loan In December 1976 the government bank gave Yunus a loan that he could use to make lots of small loans to very poor people. His group got more loans from other banks and by 1982, 28,000 people had jobs with Grameen. On 1 October 1983, Grameen was made a full bank and renamed the ( Village Bank) to give loans to poor Bangladeshis. Yunus and his workers were and women were told they would not have a Muslim burial if they borrowed money from the Grameen Bank, but they have given many, many loans to poor people. As of July 2007, Grameen Bank has loaned US$6.38 billion to 7.4 million people.
The bank loans money to '. These small groups are given loans together and if one person can not pay, the rest of the group pays for them.
The Grameen Bank started other groups in the 1980s to do things such as keeping fishing ponds clean and building. In 1989, these groups started to get their own names.
The fisheries project became (Grameen Fisheries Foundation) and the irrigation project became (Grameen Agriculture Foundation). The Grameen group has grown into many groups of and, such as the, the, and (GP) (Grameenphone is the biggest phone company in Bangladesh). The (Polli Phone) project of Grameenphone has made it possible for 260,000 poor people in over 50,000 villages to own mobile phones since March 1997. The Grameen ideas have been used in many countries throughout the world, such as the.
More than 94% of Grameen loans have been given to women, who have less money and give more to their families. For his work with the Grameen Bank, Yunus was named an Global Academy Member in 2001.
Main page: Muhammad Yunus was awarded the 2006, along with Grameen Bank, for their efforts to create and developments. The said: Muhammad Yunus has shown himself to be a leader who has managed to translate visions into practical action for the benefit of millions of people, not only in Bangladesh, but also in many other countries. Loans to poor people without any financial security had appeared to be an impossible idea. From modest beginnings three decades ago, Yunus has, first and foremost through Grameen Bank, developed micro-credit into an ever more important instrument in the struggle against poverty. Muhammad Yunus was the first and third to ever get a Nobel Prize.
After being told of the important award, Yunus said that he would use part of his share of the $1.4 million award money to create a company that makes good food that the poor can afford and the rest would go toward starting an eye hospital for the poor in Bangladesh. Former president was one of the people who said the Nobel Prize should go to Muhammed Yunus. He said this in magazine and in his:.
In a speech given at in 2002, President Clinton said Dr. Yunus was 'a man who long ago should have won the Nobel Prize and I’ll keep saying that until they finally give it to him.'
He has won many other awards, such as the Award, the the, the in the category in 2006, and the in December 2007. Yunus has been awarded 26 degrees, and 15 special awards. The Bangladesh government made a postage stamp to honour his Nobel Award. In January 2008, declared 14 January as 'Muhammad Yunus Day'. Politics In 2006 Doctor Yunus and other important people, such as Professor, Justice, Doctor, and, tried to find good people to be elected for government. Yunus thought about joining government himself that year.
On 11 February 2007, Yunus wrote a letter, published in the Bangladeshi newspaper, and he asked what people thought of creating a good government. The letter asked everyone to give ideas for this and to offer him help Dr.
Yunus started a political group called ( Nagorik Shakti) on 18 February 2007. There was speculation that the army supported a move by Yunus into politics. But on 3 May, Yunus stopped the group after a meeting with (government politician). On 18 July 2007 in, and began a group of world leaders to help the world.
Nelson Mandela announced this new group, The, in a speech he on his 89th birthday. Archbishop Tutu is to serve as the Chair of The Elders. Yunus is one of the first members of this group. Other members include Machel,. The Elders are to be funded by some of its first members, such as, Ray Chambers, Michael Chambers, Bridgeway Foundation, Pam Omidyar, Humanity United, Amy Robbins, Shashi Ruia, Dick Tarlow, and The.
Professor Yunus Family In 1967 Yunus studied at. He met Vera Forostenko, a student of there. Vera is the daughter of immigrants to in the. They were married in 1970. Yunus marriage with Vera ended a few months after the birth of their baby girl, (b. Vera returned to New Jersey and said that Bangladesh was not a good place to raise a baby.
After some time, Yunus married Afrozi Yunus, who was a researcher in at. She was appointed as a professor of physics at. Their daughter Deena Afroz Yunus was born in 1986.
Professor Yunus brother Muhammad Ibrahim is a professor of physics at and the founder of The Center for Mass Education in Science (CMES). They teach science to girls in villages. His younger brother Muhammad Jahangir is a popular television presenter. Yunus oldest daughter, Monica, is an in New York City. Books By Muhammad Yunus. Retrieved 2006-10-13.
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