Finance secretary John Swinney will hold talks with a Nobel Prize-winning anti-poverty campaigner about setting up Britain's first Grameen Bank in Scotland. Leading economist Muhammad Yunus pioneered the banks in his native Bangladesh, which offer small low-cost loans ...

As approximately 300 guests and participants took their seats in the Ball Room of the Pan-Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka on the morning of June 28, the anticipation towards the first Social Business Day's daylong program was palpable. The whole place was buzzing, and ...

Sohel Parvez Tending to an expectant mother, a health worker keys answers to a set of questions into her smartphone. The information is then sent to a local clinic by the internet-enabled phone for a follow-up. If the situation is deemed risky, doctors respond by ...

Business Rx: The books of summer By Special to Capital Business Monday, June 28, 2010 Even busy entrepreneurs and business leaders need some downtime to recharge. While you're relaxing on the beach or poolside this summer, check out some of the books that the faculty...

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus signs a copy for an enthusiast of his latest book, Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs, at its launch in Dhaka on Social Business Day yesterday. Photo: STAR Star Business Repor...

Yunus explains his concept in an exclusive interview with The Daily Star on the eve of Social Business Day Arun Devnath Build business on the selfless nature of mankind. It is business with a difference, social business -- that is. It has a social goal -- to fi...

Don't Profit from the Poor, Says Grameen Bank's Yunus   By SUNITA SOHRABJI   indiawest.com June 03, 2010   SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. “ Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, speaking at the Fairmont H...

1.    Why Grameen Shakti? Global warming is an on-going over-riding issue in Bangladesh.  So is the shortage of power.  There is hardly any electricity in the rural areas.  Eighty per cent of people of Bangladesh live in the rural areas.  Seventy pe...

World's largest water management company Veolia Water’s newly appointed global CEO Jean-Michel Herrewyn came to Bangladesh from Paris to attend the board meeting of Grameen Veolia Water Ltd. (GVW) on June 17th, 2010, along with Eric Lesueur, Projects Direct...

INTERVIEW: Muhammad Yunus: Nobel laureate & Grameen Bank founder Our economic framework is wrong, it must change Rajiv Tikoo Going by the response to his just-released Building Social Business, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunusis on the verge of ushering in a ...