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Financial TimesNew YorkGrameen, the pioneering microlending institution, has seen a sharp rise in problems for millions of poor borrowers across the developing world in repaying loans as food prices soar, according to Muhammad Yunus, its founder and Nobel Peace Prize wi...
Financial Express MumbayBy RAJIV TIKOWhen the Grameen Bank and French food major Danone set up Grameen-Danone Foods in early 2006 in Bangladesh, it was not a usual joint venture. Though the initial funding of $1.1 million was to be shared equally by Danone and four Gram...
news10nowWith the snip of a ribbon, Dr. Muhammad Yunus officially opened the modest two-room office of Grameen America in Jackson Heights, Queens, bringing his micro-finance model from rural Bangladesh to urban America."You are the banking capital of the world," said Yu...
Wall Street JournalBy Emily ParkerIn a Jackson Heights shop for colorful saris and glittering bracelets, several women have gathered to meet with their banker.Wall Street JournalBy Emily ParkerIn a Jackson Heights shop for colorful saris and glittering bracelets, severa...
The Chronicles of PhilanthropyGive & TakeA roundup of blogs about the nonprofit worldThe microfinance pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is testing the waters to see if his approach to fighting poverty can work in the United States — but skeptics are n...
Business Visionariesby David A. AndelmanMuhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 along with his Grameen Bank for pioneering the concept of micro-finance in his native Bangladesh--a financial model that has now spread across much of the Third World and intrigued ...
Lancaster FarmingNobel Prize Winner Speaks to Lancaster ChamberLANCASTER, Pa. — Muhammad Yunus has made a life of challenging the status quo in his native Bangladesh.On Wednesday, he challenged members of Lancaster County's business and agricultural community to ...
Professor Yunus visited Benin on 20 February on invitation of HE Dr Boni Yayi, President of Benin. The government of Benin is launching microfinance for the poor as a national strategy and had invited Professor Yunus to visit this West African nation and share his exper...
