Professor Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, which he founded, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.” Since then, ...

Even in the area of social business — a concept devised by Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank — women can be victimized by powerful interests. In 1997, Grameen and Telenor Norway, one of the ...

To change the world once is remarkable. A second attempt invites deification. But Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank and pioneer of microcredit, has embarked on yet another crusade: to foster ...

Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus served as the bank’s managing director for 28 years since its establishment in 1983. Grameen Bank and Yunus co-shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 in recognition of ...

Grameen Bank ... increase control for the bank's microcredit borrowers and reduce state involvement in the affairs of the institution, which was founded by Professor Muhammad Yunus, now the ...

Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus today sought a review of an apex court verdict that unseated him earlier this year from his position as the chief of the Grameen Bank, the pioneering ...

The book "Small Loans, Big Dreams: Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank and the Global Microfinance Revolution", written by Alex Counts, founder of Grameen Foundation USA, was officially launched on ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh--A labor court in Bangladesh’s capital Monday sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad ... the charges against Yunus. In 1983, Yunus founded Grameen Bank, which gives ...