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...
By The Economist online
IN MUCH of the world Muhammad Yunus is known as the genial pioneer of microcredit and the winner of the 2005 Nobel peace prize. Yet in his native Bangladesh Mr Yunus's reputation is under attack. His supporters fear tha...
By NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Very strange things are happening in Bangladesh these days. There seems to be a multi-pronged assault on Grameen Bank and on Muhammad Yunus, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his role pioneering microfinance.
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner ...
