The Interim Government in Bangladesh has expressed deep concerns over the reports of incidents of women being prevented from ...

Grameen Bank is set to get a fresh lease of life as the government plans to reduce its stake to 5 percent from the existing 25 percent. Earlier in 2013, the parliament passed the Grameen Bank Act ...

Professor Muhammad Yunus is the managing director and founder of Grameen Bank, which currently operates 1,148 branches providing credit to over 2.4 million poor people residing in 39,857 villages in ...

The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh is a micro-credit institution that lends small amounts of money to poor people who are ignored by the conventional banking system due to their lack of collateral.

While there is much to be said for doing it the NGO way or by becoming another Grameen Bank, for-profit microfinance should not be a no-no. It is the only quickly scalable model. Nobel laureate ...

The Financial Institutions Division of Bangladesh’s Ministry of Finance has drafted an ordinance to amend the Grameen Bank Act of 2013. The draft, which has been published on the website ...

A massive ownership structure change has been proposed for Nobel Prize-winning microfinance institution Grameen Bank. According to a draft ordinance recently published on the Financial Institutions ...

After witnessing the devastation caused by the 1974 famine in rural Bangladesh, which killed thousands of people, he began lending small amounts of credit to poor communities. The Grameen Bank he ...

Grameen Bank, the Nobel-winning microfinance institution ... which was founded by Professor Muhammad Yunus, now the leader of Bangladesh's interim government.