At this stage it appears the government of Bangladesh has been successful in its campaign to oust Mohammed Yunus from his post as chairman of Grameen Bank. The future of Grameen Bank is now in ...

At the Clinton Global Initiative, FORBES was a fly in a conference room, attending a special session on: Profiting from the Poor? A Discussion on Microfinance IPOs. Vikram Akula, founder of SKS ...

A massive ownership structure change has been proposed for Nobel Prize-winning microfinance institution Grameen Bank. According to a draft ordinance recently published on the Financial Institutions ...

Muhammad Yunus and his grassroots Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for lending a social conscience to capitalism and “their efforts to create economic and social development from below” ...

Something about the Grameen Bank story didn’t seem quite right, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Muhammad Yunus is the apostle of microcredit who won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. The Grameen ...

The government has reinstated Grameen Bank's tax exemption for the next five years, extending it until December 2029. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) issued a gazette on Thursday, confirming the ...

The interim government has reinstated a tax exemption for Grameen Bank and offered it for the next five years, meaning until December 2029. The microfinance specialised community development bank was ...

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It is hard to think of a philanthropic trend that had more widespread support than “microfinance.” The idea, launched in 1976 by economist Muhammad Yunus, offered small loans to impoverished women in ...

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