Yunus, who had been managing director of Grameen Bank since 1999, is 70 years old.
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Prof Cam Donaldson is the Yunus chair in social business and health at Glasgow Caledonian University.
This excerpt is from Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty (Public Affairs: 2008).
Officials are furiously trying to unearth evidence that Mr Yunus in fact controls them.
Yunus has moved on now, and is pushing the next wave in pro-poor innovation: the social enterprise.
Mr Yunus foresees social businesses bringing clean water, renewable energy and health insurance to the impoverished masses.
In this sense Mr Yunus and his bank are one of the worthiest winners in past years.
But the release of the documentary led to sharp attacks on Mr Yunus and Grameen in Bangladesh.
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Yunus and Grameen are well-known brands, especially in the developing world, where Danone does 45% of its business.
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Like other potential champions of true free-market capitalism, Yunus has the soapbox to help make it happen.
It sounds compelling, and Yunus goes on to say that he is not against the concept of profit.
Just ask the great microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank -- women are the best bet.
Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank shared the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Yunus spent time with farmers, manual laborers, and village residents to learn the real root causes of the famine.
Now, however, Grameen and Yunus find themselves in a legal struggle, which Yunus plans to take to the Supreme Court.
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"These young men can then set up their own auto-repair shops and employ other people like themselves, " Mr Yunus says.
In an especially daring attack on June 22nd, rebels used a suicide-bomber to try to kill Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, Ingushetia's president.
She was active in developing micro-finance two decades before Muhammad Yunus and Grameen bank shared the Nobel Peace prize for microcredit.
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Muhammad Yunus is a global leader in anti-poverty efforts, and pioneered the use of "micro-loans" to provide credit to poor individuals.
But his attempt to build a new political force probably needs the army's backing, which Mr Yunus will want to avoid.
Mr Yunus's aides say the members of the Grameen family are all independent entities with no legal ties to each other.
Yunus says too many companies use CSR as a public relations tool, rather than getting serious about doing good in the world.
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Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
The concept was pioneered by Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
Poverty alleviation and sustained social change was the original intent of Dr. Muhammad Yunus in his pioneering efforts to develop the industry.
He struck up a relationship with Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, which provides microfinance, to turn the dream into reality.
Its role in helping people out of poverty was highlighted when microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel peace prize in 2006.
Mr Yunus might argue that these non-profits rely on donors, not investors.
Dr Yunus is the managing director of Grameen Bank, whose 1, 300 branches serve more than 3.5m people in 46, 000 villages in Bangladesh.
One candidate to fill it is Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel-prize-winning microcredit pioneer.
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