Small Change, Big Deal By Jennifer Kavanagh Small Change Big Deal – Book Description : Across the world, small groups of people...
Statement from Alex Counts, President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, on the resignation of microfinance pioneer Professor Muhammad Yunus, winner of the...
This is the third installment of weekly News Digest 3 (ND3) that we had announced previously. The News Digest comprises of news...
Filmmaker Gayle Ferraro takes a trip to Jobra, Bangladesh, to seek what really happened to Sophia Begum, the famous bamboo stool maker...
Grameen Bank founder Dr Muhammad Yunus has been granted bail in a court case filed by the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) alleging...
The Malegam committee, set up by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to chalk out a framework within which microfinance institutions (MFIs)...
On Tuesday the 30th Novermber 2011 at 9:30pm, the world premiere of a documentary film on Microfinance titled Caught in Micro debt will be...
Microlending Backlash Spreads to Bangladesh Backlash against the booming microfinance industry that has thrown Andhra Pradesh into crisis may be spreading to...
By Rajan Alexander The views expressed in the below article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views...
MFI activities in AP come to a halt The activities of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Andhra Pradesh have come to a grinding...
SolarWorld is to present the 2010 SolarWorld Einstein Award to Nobel Peace Prize laureate and micro-finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus in September. The...
Japan based Fast Retailing Co Ltd announced that it will establish a new wholly-owned subsidiary in September 2010 to launch a social...
The mission of Grameen Carso is to significantly increase access to affordable micro-credit in Mexico for poverty alleviation through the Grameen Bank...
Grameen Trust of Bangladesh and Alibaba Group have joined hands to create the Grameen China initiative, an effort to provide micro-credit financial...
Having shaken up the conventions of banking by arguing that credit is a fundamental right to help the poor in his native...
Guwahati, June 8: Assam — which was supposed to be the stepping stone for the Indian operations of Grameen Bank on the...
Yunus calls the current economic crisis “good” and “exciting” because it gives us an opportunity to create a “new normalcy.” He says...
INTERVIEW/ Muhammad Yunus: Selfless side of humans can overcome crisisDHAKA–A new business model that puts top priority on contributions to society instead...
A Nobel Prize-winning academic turned micro-finance banker for the poor has important advice for Washington. Muhammad Yunus believes that the government bailout...
ENEVA (AFP) — The financial crisis has not hit the microfinance system, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus said Thursday, as he...
Bangalore August 19, 2008: The Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus who was awarded the Nobel prize for his contributions in the field of...