Grameen Bank is a shining global model of what it means to empower women -- even, and especially, ... Opinion: Microfinance pioneer Grameen Bank weakened by government meddling.

Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, joins us for an extended interview on microfinance, the Grameen Bank, and how five men own more wealth than ...

Editor’s Note: Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is founder of Grameen Bank and more than 50 other companies. He is author of “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and ...

Grameen, meanwhile, said today that Yunus is "continuing in his office" at the bank. To learn more, I talked today with David Roodman , who is writing a book on microfinance around the world.

Yunus: I'm not opposed to profit. Grameen Bank is a bank. But ownership is the question. Grameen Bank is owned by the borrowers and the profit goes back to them.

Finance gaps. Microfinance has been most widely successful in Bangladesh, where in the late 1970s the Grameen Bank pioneered a model of offering very small loans to groups of poor women.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus challenged the legality Thursday of a Bangladeshi government order dismissing him as the head of the microfinance bank he founded.

Grameen Bank specialises in giving small loans, also called microfinance, to people who use it to pay for things such as a new roof or to small businesses, to buy stock for example.

The country’s central bank and courts have ruled that Yunus must immediately leave Grameen, on an absurdly ageist technicality: he is older than 60, hence disqualified to run a bank (a matter ...

The global financial crisis has highlighted a curious success story: A bank that doles out loans to some of the world's poorest, least-creditworthy people continues to have a payback rate of ...

What has happened at Grameen Bank is wrong—and could cause a great deal of harm to the hundreds of thousands of poor customers that Grameen serves. The Friends of Grameen are to be commended, and ...

Grameen Bank, Which Pioneered Loans For the Poor, Has Hit a Repayment Snag. By Daniel Pearl and Michael M. Phillips ... a U.S.-based network of microfinance institutions, ...