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".
I...
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...
WASHINGTON, DC - According to a report released by the Microcredit Summit Campaign, a program of the US-based advocacy group RESULTS Educational Fund, nearly 2 million Bangladeshi households involved in microfinance - including nearly 10 million family members, on net -...
By Professor Cam Donaldson
Another example of the global influence of the ideas of Nobel Peace Laureate, Professor Mohammad Yunus is exemplified by the action and research agendas that are now formulating in countries like the United Kingdom. In Scotland, in particular...
Yunus Centre and ID Group, a French company, yesterday signed a deal to produce functional clothing for children of 0-5 years under social business in Bangladesh.
The business will also provide technical training to the rural poor and generate employment. It plans to s...
By Shafiq Alam
DHAKA (AFP) - Nobel prize winner and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is in trouble in Bangladesh -- the price for crossing the country's powerful Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, observers say.
Lauded internationally for his innovative work making smal...
