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...
Of course the corporate will have an agenda. History has been speaking the same dialect for centuries.
The Europeans, the developed, our mentors, our enviable "others" have been practicing this for a long time. Money and enfranchisement have been tied together for most...
January 19, 2011 Dear Professor Yunus and the Grameen Bank Family, As academics and professionals working at home and abroad, we write to express our gratitude and support for the enormous contributions made by micro-credit, by you and by the Grameen Bank (GB) to the t...
In December 2010, Grameen Bank invited MicroFinance Transparency to certify their prices. MFTransparency followed its detailed procedures for certifying their prices and the report has just been published on their website.
The report shows prices for Grameen Bank...
By Eirik G. Jansen and Md. Nazibor Rahman
The pace and atmosphere of the village was different. That was the first thing we noticed when we came back to Bhaimara after more than 30 years. At the end of the1970s, Bhaimara was a quiet small village, 60 km west of......
By Professor Muhammad Yunus
Published in the New York Times on 01/14/2011
IN the 1970s, when I began working here on what would eventually be called "microcredit," one of my goals was to eliminate the presence of loan sharks who grow rich by preying on the poor. In ...
By Connie Evans
Many of us who have worked in microfinance or more broadly, to help alleviate poverty in our communities know the great and almost insurmountable challenges that come along with trying to affect "change."
Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank m...
