By Munir Quddus
Nearly four decades after gaining independence, as we celebrate victory against tyranny and oppression, Bangladeshis have much to celebrate. Among the many blessings we should appreciate as a people are the many fine civic leaders that the nation ...
An article by Peter Graves, titled "Credit where it's due - how microfinancing helps the poor", published in The Canberra Times on 02/19/2011.
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U.S. State Department official, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Geoffrey Pyatt accompanied by Ambassador James F. Moriarty came to visit Professor Yunus on 12th of February, 2011.
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By Nick Stace
Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammed Yunus is being investigated for alleged corruption by Bangladesh's government. Nick Stace defends the man who has helped millions of the world's poorest people.
A year ago, I along with other social enterpris...
By Peter Osnos
In the mid-1990s, I was introduced to Muhammad Yunus, whose micro-credit movement in Bangladesh was just beginning to attract attention. The concept was brilliantly simple: small loans, mainly to women, enable people to create money streams of their own-...
By Frédéric Bobin
Letter from Asia
he community centre, its corrugated iron walls set into a dirt floor, is jam-packed. It's collection day in Atalora, a village about 50 kilometres from Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital. The "banker" is here, one hand...
On 27th of January 2011, the Norwegian Nobel committee has reiterated its support to Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank, in the light of the charges made in the Danish documentary broadcast in Norway "Caught in Microcro-debt", and then "in various forms in Bangladesh".
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By M. Adil Khan
The dust has thinned but not settled
The political cacophony created by the Danish journalist Heinemann's documentary, "Fanget i Mikrogjeld" or "Caught in Micro debt" featured in NRK TV in December 2010 is astounding.
One of documentary's allegations ...
By Lydia Polgreen
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Any other year Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a pioneer of microcredit, would be in Davos, Switzerland, this week. For years he has been celebrated at global gatherings like the World Economic Forum there for he...
By Nasreen Khundker
In 1993, I was a member of the Phase IV evaluation mission of Grameen Bank. This evaluation was financed by NORAD, CIDA, USAID and a few other donors. I was approached by Mr. Muzammel Huq, then general manager of Grameen Bank, to be part of this m...
