Muhammad Yunus (8 March 2009)

Muhammad Yunus spoke on Abolishing Poverty The Human Rights Priority. This lecture was a collaboration between the Centre for Social Impact, Business for Millennium Development, World Vision and the Sydney Peace Prize.


Professor Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, fuelled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right.


His objective was to help poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to them and by teaching them a few sound financial principles so they could help themselves.


Grameen Bank has lifted millions out of poverty by disbursing $6.6bn in millions of tiny loans to the poor.