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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
- 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
- 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
- IBM Partners With Grameen Foundation to Expand Its Open Source Microfinance Banking Platform and Help Eradicate Poverty
- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Grameen Foundation today announced a collaborative project to help microfinance institutions MFIs better serve poor communities around the world by expanding Mifos, Grameen Foundation's ground-breaking open source microfinance software platform. The project will build additional functionality and robustness into the Mifos application and give MFIs...
- Research articles 2007-10-15
- 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
- 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
- Nokia enters into collaboration with Grameen Foundation USA
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-16 November 2005-Nokia enters into collaboration with Grameen Foundation USAC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
- Research articles 2005-11-16
- Telenor ASA increases ownership in Grameen Phone
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-22 December 2003-Telenor ASA increases ownership in Grameen PhoneC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
- Research articles 2003-12-22
- Grameen Foundation Launches Mifos Initiative
- Breakthrough Information Management Platform Will Change the Way the Microfinance Industry Manages Technology HALIFAX, Canada -- Grameen Foundation today announced the launch of a new initiative designed to address the significant technology challenges facing microfinance practitioners worldwide by revolutionizing the way they access and use technology to run their...
- Research articles 2006-11-13
- SkyMall to Help Raise Funds for Grameen Foundation USA With Vendela During Online Auction At skymall.com
- Internet Event Coincides with Gala Fundraiser Featuring Supermodel Vendela Benefiting Anti-Poverty Organization's Domestic Efforts SkyMallR Inc. (NASDAQ:SKYM) announced today it has teamed up with supermodel Vendela to introduce several fundraising initiatives including an online auction. SkyMall is a sponsor of the Grameen Foundation USA's Awards Ceremony to...
- Research articles 1999-06-15
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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