Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Muhammad Yunus and IIM-Ahmedabad to fund social business

And now, some good news. I have been a huge admirer of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank-founder Muhammad Yunus. The nobel laureate's initiatives helped drastically reduce poverty in rural Bangladesh. Now, he is implementing a very workable plan to fund social business in India.

According to the Economic Times, Yunus is going to work with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad to float a Rs 50-crore fund to seed social ventures. I quote the ET, "Yunus defines a social business as one that pays no dividend to shareholders, but ploughs all profits back into the company whose purpose is to serve social needs."

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