DHAKA (AFP) – Bangladesh's pioneering microlender faces ... The government commission has released a working paper on restructuring Grameen Bank, founded by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh seems bent on destroying the best elements of the Grameen Bank, whose loans to poor women inspired a global movement now enabling more than 135 million ...

In fact, in the four years that I’ve been working in Bangladesh I have only ever met male debt collectors, never women. Grameen bank boasts a 96 per cent repayment rate, far surpassing the ...

Bangladesh's interim leader has hit on a solution, based on capitalism and entrepreneurship, that works for many.

DHAKA, Bangladesh – Bangladesh's parliament has passed a law bringing the pioneering Grameen Bank under closer central bank supervision, a move bitterly opposed by the lender's founder Nobel ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh — A labor court in Bangladesh ... In 1983, Yunus founded Grameen Bank, which gives small loans to entrepreneurs who would not normally qualify for bank loans.

Deseret News Opinion Editor Jay Evensen has known Muhammad Yunis since 1997 when the world leader first visited Utah. He ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -- Bangladesh has decided to expand the power of the government-appointed chairman at pioneering microlender Grameen Bank. Government spokesman Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan ...

Bangladesh has ordered a four-member commission to investigate 54 businesses linked to the pioneering microlender Grameen Bank founded by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. The probe came weeks after ...