Bangladesh's pioneering microlender faces an uncertain future after a commission proposed the government take over or break up the Nobel-award-winning bank, analysts said Tuesday.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says Bangladesh's latest move to expand the power of the government-appointed chairman at the pioneering Grameen Bank he founded could hurt the millions of poor ...

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

Grameen Bank, launched in Bangladesh in 1976 by an economics professor named Muhammad Yunus, popularized the idea of giving poor people tiny loans to launch businesses.

Being kicked out of Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank. Local journalists warned that an interview with Nobel Laureate Mohammad Yunus, bank’s founder, would be near impossible.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...