Economy in Black & White: Digital Diary: 2025: A

 Dr Muhammad Younus 

001) https://www.muhammadyunus.org/ 

A) Seven Principles of Social Business 

    1) Business objective will be to overcome poverty, or one or more problems (such as education, health, technology access, and environment) which threaten people and society; not profit maximization.

2) Financial and economic sustainability

3) Investors get back their investment amount only. No dividend is given beyond investment money

4) When investment amount is paid back, company profit stays with the company for expansion and improvement

5) Gender sensitive and environmentally conscious

6) Workforce gets market wage with better working conditions

7) ...do it with joy  

B) TYPES OF SOCIAL BUSINESSES

01. TYPE 01 OR CLASSIC SOCIAL BUSINESS 

02. TYPE 02 SOCIAL BUSINESS

03. PRE SOCIAL BUSINESS

C) What Role Governments Can Play In Promoting Social Business

D) Government May Become a Facilitator and a Promoter of Social Business

E) What May Be The Expansion Strategy of Social Business ? 

01. Replication is the best strategy to expand the out-reach of any social business. The most challenging part of a social business is to develop the first sustainable prototype. 

02. Replication can be undertaken in the following ways:

a. May create provincial, or national or international companies to    replicate,

b. May create franchising company.

c. May create partnership companies with local entrepreneurs, and venture capital funds.

d. May create partnership companies with international companies and NGOs, Foundations, etc.

e. May enter into contracts with governments at various levels —local, regional, and national, companies, foundations or other service providers.

f. Government can inspire all corporates, domestic and multinational, to create a social business along side their existing businesses. Government can give special facilities to those corporates which do so.

g. Government may inspire all banks and financial institutions to create as social business subsidiaries to bring financial services to unbanked people, particularly women, and social business funds.

h.Government can encourage all NGOs to transform part of their activities as social business.

G)  Questions and Answers on Yunus Social Business Centres  

H) Not for Profit 

• Grameen Trust
• Grameen Byabosa Bikash
• Grameen Healthcare Services Ltd.
• Grameen Kalyan
• Grameen Krishi Foundation
• Grameen Mothso O Poshu-Shampad Foundation
• Grameen Shakti
• Grameen Shikkha
• Grameen Trust
• Grameen Telecom
• Grameen Fund
• Grameen Healthcare Trust
• Grameen Uddog
• Grameen Shamogree
• Grameen Communications
• Grameen Credit Agricole
• Grameen Foundation

I) For Profit  

For Profit, Owned wholly by Grameen's Not for Profit Companies :

Grameen Capital Management Ltd.

Grameen Knitwear Ltd.

Grameen Distribution Ltd. 

For Profit, Owned Partially by Grameen's Not for Profit Companies :

Grameen Phone

Grameen Solutions

Grameen Cybernet

Grameen Star Education Ltd.

Grameen Bitek Ltd. 

J) Why Social Business? 

K) Thailand Seeks Yunus' Advice on Development of Muslim Majority Southern Provinces 

L) Rejoinder on Allegations Regarding Padma Bridge, Tax Evasion and Illegal Money Transfer Abroad​ 

M) Sixteen Thousand New Youth Entrepreneur Funded 

N) 531st Social Business Design Lab Held

O) Exceeds 13000 Businesses: 481st Social Business Design Lab will invest in Six More Small Businesses ... Link  

P) 459th Social Business Design Lab Held

Q) 437th Social Business Design Lab Held: Over 100 Crore Invested 

R) Social Business on Safe Water and Three Social Business Centres launched at Design Lab; New Entrepreneurs cross 10,000 

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002) https://www.muhammadyunus.org/post/1707/latest-books 

List of Books of Professor Muhammad Yunus published till date