On behalf of the Global Center for Development and Democracy (CGDD), and particularly, on president Alejandro Toledo´s, we wish to express our support in these moments which we believe are not easy for you, your organization and all the women members of your world-cl...
14 March 2011
Professor Muhammad YunusManaging DirectorGrameen Bank
On behalf of CARD MRI Family, including our more than 1.5 million members and clients, we would like to assure you of our unwavering support to you as the MANAGING DIRECTOR of Grameen Bank.
We have...
On March 31, the Sundance documentary To Catch a Dollar premieres in theaters nationwide in America. This one night only event will spotlight the promise of microfinance in America through stories of brave women entrepreneurs. This one night event is being simulcast acr...
By Ameerah Haq
I have served in the United Nations for over three decades. In the course of my various assignments and travels in many nations, I have found that Bangladesh is synonymous with Grameen Bank, Prof. Yunus and Sir Fazle Abed. The awarding of the Nobel Peace...
We are writing in support of the phenomenal work that Dr. Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank have been undertaking in the field of poverty alleviation and women's economic empowerment in Bangladesh. Dr. Yunus and Grameen Bank are today global icons and torchbearers for...
While the Nobel Prize was established in 1895, and the first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901, even the Norwegian Nobel Committee would not have thought that by bestowing this prize on Professor Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank in 2006, they are about to impact the lives of...
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday said a line must be drawn between microcredit and non-microcredit organisations to tell apart the society-orientated operations from the money making ones.
"We introduced the microcredit system so that the poor can get rid o...
Bangladesh Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is perhaps facing one of the worst crises in his professional life. The central bank of that country has ousted the founder and managing director of Grameen Bank on the ground that he has exceeded the official retirement age of 6...
By Shamima Amin-Methu
The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Prof. Yunus, is like a rare gem. This rare gem should be displayed in the National Museum as a treasured showpiece; instead, some people in Bangladesh are trying to break the gem into pieces to verify its purity....
By Tahmima Anam
It is winter and Dhaka is full of lights. Shaheed Minar, the memorial commemorating the Language Movement that led to the independence of Bangladesh, glows a bright orange. In the posh neighbourhoods of Gulshan and Baridhara, entire apartment buildings ...
