By Hossain Zillur Rahman
Once derided as a basket-case, Bangladesh now enjoys global attention for its economic resilience and social progress. Problems remain but the achievements speak for themselves. Gender parity has already been achieved in primary and secondary...
Some 56 years ago, Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus had been nominated for attending World Scouts Jamboree when he was a student of class X at Chittagong Collegiate School.
When asked why he wanted to join the jamboree, 15-year-old Yunus told the chief national commi...
Nobel laureate and Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus, who brought radical changes in the micro-credit area in his country by setting up the Grameen Bank, called for a separate regulatory mechanism for the Indian microfinance sector.
"It is not about more or less reg...
By Munir Quddus
Nearly four decades after gaining independence, as we celebrate victory against tyranny and oppression, Bangladeshis have much to celebrate. Among the many blessings we should appreciate as a people are the many fine civic leaders that the nation ...
An article by Peter Graves, titled "Credit where it's due - how microfinancing helps the poor", published in The Canberra Times on 02/19/2011.
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U.S. State Department official, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Geoffrey Pyatt accompanied by Ambassador James F. Moriarty came to visit Professor Yunus on 12th of February, 2011.
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By Nick Stace
Nobel Peace Prize winner Professor Muhammed Yunus is being investigated for alleged corruption by Bangladesh's government. Nick Stace defends the man who has helped millions of the world's poorest people.
A year ago, I along with other social enterpris...
By Peter Osnos
In the mid-1990s, I was introduced to Muhammad Yunus, whose micro-credit movement in Bangladesh was just beginning to attract attention. The concept was brilliantly simple: small loans, mainly to women, enable people to create money streams of their own-...
By Frédéric Bobin
Letter from Asia
he community centre, its corrugated iron walls set into a dirt floor, is jam-packed. It's collection day in Atalora, a village about 50 kilometres from Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital. The "banker" is here, one hand...
On 27th of January 2011, the Norwegian Nobel committee has reiterated its support to Professor Yunus and Grameen Bank, in the light of the charges made in the Danish documentary broadcast in Norway "Caught in Microcro-debt", and then "in various forms in Bangladesh".
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