By M. Adil Khan
The dust has thinned but not settled
The political cacophony created by the Danish journalist Heinemann's documentary, "Fanget i Mikrogjeld" or "Caught in Micro debt" featured in NRK TV in December 2010 is astounding.
One of documentary's allegations ...
By Lydia Polgreen
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Any other year Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a pioneer of microcredit, would be in Davos, Switzerland, this week. For years he has been celebrated at global gatherings like the World Economic Forum there for he...
By Nasreen Khundker
In 1993, I was a member of the Phase IV evaluation mission of Grameen Bank. This evaluation was financed by NORAD, CIDA, USAID and a few other donors. I was approached by Mr. Muzammel Huq, then general manager of Grameen Bank, to be part of this m...
WASHINGTON, DC - According to a report released by the Microcredit Summit Campaign, a program of the US-based advocacy group RESULTS Educational Fund, nearly 2 million Bangladeshi households involved in microfinance - including nearly 10 million family members, on net -...
By Professor Cam Donaldson
Another example of the global influence of the ideas of Nobel Peace Laureate, Professor Mohammad Yunus is exemplified by the action and research agendas that are now formulating in countries like the United Kingdom. In Scotland, in particular...
Yunus Centre and ID Group, a French company, yesterday signed a deal to produce functional clothing for children of 0-5 years under social business in Bangladesh.
The business will also provide technical training to the rural poor and generate employment. It plans to s...
By Shafiq Alam
DHAKA (AFP) - Nobel prize winner and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus is in trouble in Bangladesh -- the price for crossing the country's powerful Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, observers say.
Lauded internationally for his innovative work making smal...
Of course the corporate will have an agenda. History has been speaking the same dialect for centuries.
The Europeans, the developed, our mentors, our enviable "others" have been practicing this for a long time. Money and enfranchisement have been tied together for most...
January 19, 2011 Dear Professor Yunus and the Grameen Bank Family, As academics and professionals working at home and abroad, we write to express our gratitude and support for the enormous contributions made by micro-credit, by you and by the Grameen Bank (GB) to the t...
In December 2010, Grameen Bank invited MicroFinance Transparency to certify their prices. MFTransparency followed its detailed procedures for certifying their prices and the report has just been published on their website.
The report shows prices for Grameen Bank...
