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 ...

She and many other women have come to make installments on loans through the Grameen Bank, established by Nobel laureate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Though the Grameen Bank is dressed as an NGO, it behaves and operates like a corporate entity. Other than the tax relief, the interim government also reduced the Bangladesh government's stake in ...

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 Bank has granted a license to "Samadhan Services Limited", a subsidiary of Grameen Telecom founded by Dr Muhammad ...