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- How Muhammad Yunus Created an Impossible Business
- Grameen Bank is an improbable business worth study. In the second section of Creating a World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus details the ongoing evolution of what he calls “The Grameen Experiment.†Yunus was an economist, not a banker, and he needed to invent his bank for the poor,...
- Blog posts 2008-01-12
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- Bangladesh Nobel winner to sever ties with Grameen Bank
- DHAKA AFP — Bangladesh's "banker to the poor" Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus will sever ties with Grameen Bank after he enters politics later this month, a report has said. Yunus was "ready to relinquish his long relationship with micro-lender Grameen Bank in the greater interest of launching...
- Research articles 2007-02-19
- Can the Grameen experience work in Africa? Can Africa learn from the revolutionary micro-finance solutions pioneered by the Grameen Bank experience in Bangladesh? The bank's founder and the bank itself were awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Neil Ford di
- The decision to award the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has underlined the potential of micro-finance in developing countries. Micro-finance banks have been set up in most African countries over the past decade but the sheer scale of the Grameen operations is...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Microfinance: America's Bank to the Poor Teams Up With H&R Block
- Grameen America, modeled after the 24-year-old Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, is teaming up with H&R Block to bring the lending techniques that are helping the Third World's poor prosper to the hypercompetitive U.S. market. A pilot program in New York City Grameen America, modeled after the 24-year-old Grameen Bank...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- KINGDOM TO SET UP 'FAMILY BANK' TO ASSIST THE POOR
- According to "Bahrain Tribune", Bahrain will sign a memorandum of understanding MOU with the Grameen Bank in a bid to set up a grassroots "Family Bank" to help poor families. Minister of Social Development Dr Fatima Al Balooshi said Grameen Bank experience can be taken as a model to improve...
- Research articles 2007-02-07
- BAHRAIN: KINGDOM TO SET UP 'FAMILY BANK' TO ASSIST THE POOR.
- According to "Bahrain Tribune", Bahrain will sign a memorandum of understanding MOU with the Grameen Bank in a bid to set up a grassroots "Family Bank" to help poor families. Minister of Social Development Dr Fatima Al Balooshi said Grameen Bank experience can be taken as...
- Research articles 2007-02-07
- BAHRAIN: KINGDOM TO SET UP 'FAMILY BANK' TO ASSIST THE POOR.
- According to "Bahrain Tribune", Bahrain will sign a memorandum of understanding MOU with the Grameen Bank in a bid to set up a grassroots "Family Bank" to help poor families. Minister of Social Development Dr Fatima Al Balooshi said Grameen Bank experience can be...
- Research articles 2007-02-07
- Grameen's Yunus announces new partnership with ITU; Network of partners to combine power of ICTs and Micro-credit Financing for the Poor.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-4 December 2006-ITU: Grameen's Yunus announces new partnership with ITU; Network of partners to combine power of ICTs and Micro-credit Financing for the PoorC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03122006 Hong Kong - Nobel Prize Laureate and Managing Director of Grameen ...
- Research articles 2006-12-04
- Grameen Health to Establish Independent Collaborations with Pfizer, GE Healthcare, and Mayo Clinic to Create Sustainable Healthcare Delivery Models for the Developing World
- Partnerships Will Support Development of Business Models That Meet the Health Needs of 4 Billion People Around the World Who Live on Annual Incomes of Less Than $3,000 BOSTON -- Grameen Health, an affiliate of Grameen Bank, the pioneering micro-financing organization in Bangladesh that shared the Nobel Peace Prize...
- Research articles 2008-09-24
- Bangladeshi economist, bank for poor win Nobel Peace Prize
- OSLO, Norway -- Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their pioneering use of tiny, seemingly insignificant loans -- microcredit -- to lift millions out of poverty. Through Yunus's efforts and those of the bank he founded,...
- Research articles 2006-10-13
- Muhammad Yunus: Capitalism is Half-Baked
- In “Creating a World Without Poverty,†Muhammad Yunus has written a dangerous book. Not so much for his goal â€" that’s merely outlandish, since most people expect the poor will always be. Besides, Yunus knows how to make audacious ideas real â€" he created Grameen Bank to bring financial...
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Bangladesh Renewable Energy Pioneer Grameen Shakti Presents Rural- Based Solar Home System Model at WIREC
- To: FOREIGN EDITORS Contact: Kristine Heine, +1-202-371-9600, kheine@globalcommunicators.com, for Grameen Shakti WASHINGTON, March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Grameen Shakti (http://www.gshakti.org), one of the most successful rural-based renewable energy companies in the world, sent its founder and managing director, Dipal Barua (http://www.gshakti.org/cv.html), here this week to explain the companys model to...
- Research articles 2008-03-06
- Measuring Microfinance's Effectiveness
- A major issue for microcredit, one of the main efforts to fill the holes in market economics, is the lack of a consistent way to measure its impact. For instance, how many of the people who get microcredit are lifted out of poverty, for instance. Does it work as well...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Capital and kindness: micro-credit is no miracle
- THE Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which pioneered the concept of micro-credit, has come under attack. Hailed as a development success story, the Grameen Bank allowed the poor to obtain small loans without collateral. About eight million families obtained micro-credit to launch tiny but profitable ventures. Muhammad Yunus, the Bank's founder,...
- Research articles 1998-12-01
- BANGLADESH THE SCHWAB FOUNDATION SALUTES MUHAMMAD YUNUS, WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2006.
- The Schwab Foundation sends its congratulations to its longstanding Board Member Muhammad Yunus and to the Grameen Bank for winning the Nobel Peace Prize 2006. Professor Yunus has been instrumental in developing and spreading the message that the poo The Schwab Foundation sends its congratulations to...
- Research articles 2006-10-15
- Rice congratulates Nobel peace laureate for 'extraordinary work'
- WASHINGTON AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice extended her "warmest congratulations" to Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh and his Grameen Bank for winning the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. "With the aim of 'creating social and economic development from below,' Dr. Yunus and the Grameen Bank he founded have done...
- Research articles 2006-10-13
- World leaders, campaigners hail Nobel Peace laureate
- OSLO AFP — Development groups and political leaders around the world have hailed the new Nobel Peace laureate, Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus, for his work in helping millions escape poverty with small-scale loans. Dubbed the "Banker to the Poor", Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the prize jointly on Friday for...
- Research articles 2006-10-13
- Philippine microfinance project cited in fight against poverty.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-4 December 2001-ADB: Philippine microfinance project cited in fight against poverty C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:03122001 MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- A Philippine microfinance project was cited as an example of an effective weapon against poverty during a national ...
- Research articles 2001-12-04
- Small loans help defeat poverty
- More than a year has passed since Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for his successful microcredit formula, which helps people pull themselves out of poverty. But while that award offered a huge boost of credibility for Yunus and his Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, it apparently wasn't enough of...
- Research articles 2007-12-23
- Grameenphone IPO signals new era for Dhaka
- The initial public offering this week of Bangladesh's biggest telecommunications company has been heralded as the long-awaited coming-of-age of the Dhaka Stock Exchange. Grameenphone raised $71m from local retail investors, in a country where the stock market has been viewed with suspicion since a brutal 1996 crash. Prospective investors waited...
- News items 2009-10-08
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