A Bangladesh court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus for failing to appear on charges he violated labor laws. The Dhaka court ordered ...

Microcredit is a great idea with a problem: the bank that made it famous. Grameen Bank, launched in Bangladesh in 1976 by an economics professor named Muhammad Yunus, popularized the idea of giving ...

Grameen America is upping its game in impact investing. That’s potentially especially good news for low-income women looking for microloans to jump-start a business. The microfinance organization just ...

Jagran Josh presents today's important current affairs quiz from the perspective of competitive exams for students preparing ...

1. (C) Nobel Peace Laureate and Grameen Bank Chairman Muhammad Yunus asked that the USG assist him in urging Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to change a long-standing rule that gives the Government of ...

(AP) Bangladesh is placing Grameen Bank, which pioneered small loans for the poor, under closer scrutiny by the country’s central bank. The Cabinet of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday approved ...

In 2006, Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, the innovative micro-credit bank he founded, jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts toward reducing poverty in Bangladesh. A former economics ...

Katherine Hunt advises GlobalSisters on social impact measurement from their enterprise training programs. The Grameen Bank, a pioneer in lending to the financially vulnerable in the developing world, ...