The Interim Government in Bangladesh has expressed deep concerns over the reports of incidents of women being prevented from ...

Grameen Bank is set to get a fresh lease of life as the government plans to reduce its stake to 5 percent from the existing 25 percent. Earlier in 2013, the parliament passed the Grameen Bank Act ...

Professor Muhammad Yunus is the managing director and founder of Grameen Bank, which currently operates 1,148 branches providing credit to over 2.4 million poor people residing in 39,857 villages in ...

The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh is a micro-credit institution that lends small amounts of money to poor people who are ignored by the conventional banking system due to their lack of collateral.

A massive ownership structure change has been proposed for Nobel Prize-winning microfinance institution Grameen Bank. According to a draft ordinance recently published on the Financial Institutions ...

After witnessing the devastation caused by the 1974 famine in rural Bangladesh, which killed thousands of people, he began lending small amounts of credit to poor communities. The Grameen Bank he ...

Grameen Bank, which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, earned its celebrated reputation by helping poor women in Bangladesh become entrepreneurs. Through microfinance loans — small amounts of capital ...

That is, until she discovered Grameen Bank, one of the first microfinance institutions (MFIs), which set up shop in rural Bangladesh in the wake of the 1976 famine. In 1979, Grameen made Mufiya a ...

Four individuals have been placed on a one-day remand following their alleged involvement in a fire at the factory of Grameen Fabrics and Fashion Ltd in Kashimpur, Gazipur, on Wednesday evening.

Social Welfare Affairs Adviser Sharmeen Soneya Murshid called upon all concerned to implement microfinance programs under one umbrella to eradicate poverty from the country.  The adviser made the ...

Thousands of Bangladeshis protested on Saturday against the removal of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from the top post at Grameen Bank, the microlender he founded. Bangladesh's finance minister on ...

Grameen Bank, the Nobel-winning microfinance institution ... which was founded by Professor Muhammad Yunus, now the leader of Bangladesh's interim government.