Bangladesh hasn't just seen a rise of Muhammad Yunus, it has seen businesses associated with him switch to top gears. The ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, joins us for an extended interview on microfinance ...

Microcredit is a great idea with a problem: the bank that made it famous. Grameen Bank, launched in Bangladesh in 1976 by an economics professor named Muhammad Yunus, popularized the idea of ...

Fact-checking platform BanglaFact, operated by the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB), has identified that an ...

Controversy ranges far beyond poisonous local politics, the factor most often cited by those despondent about Grameen Bank’s worsening crisis. True, at first glance we see an oppressive state ...

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The Yunus Centre, a think tank dedicated to the flourishing of Prof Md Yunus’s ideas on fighting poverty, has responded to issues raised at a press conference held on Saturday by Grameen Bank, where ...

He eventually became a primary guarantor and founded the Grameen Bank with simple rules and procedures for lending money. "Whatever conventional banks do, I do the opposite. That's why I said it's not ...

From a modest beginning in 1977, the Grameen Bank has become a model for development projects throughout the world. Its guiding principle is stunningly simple: it provides micro-loans--in ...

I spent the first five years of my career trying to understand everything about the Grameen Bank and its founder, Professor Muhammad Yunus, who would go on to share the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. I spent ...