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

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 ...

Hundreds of protesters set fire to Bangladesh's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's house in Dhaka after his daughter and ...

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 ...

That is, until she discovered Grameen Bank, one of the first microfinance institutions (MFIs), which set up shop in rural Bangladesh in the wake of the 1976 famine. In 1979, Grameen made Mufiya a ...

Thousands of Bangladeshis protested on Saturday against the removal of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from the top post at Grameen Bank, the microlender he founded. Bangladesh's finance minister on ...

The interim government on Thursday said it remains "deeply concerned" by reports of incidents of women being prevented from ...

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