Grameen Bank

Grameen Bank

The Grameen Bank is a Bangledesh organization that makes small loans to impoverished families in order to help those families establish themselves. The Grameen Bank and its founder Muhammad Yunus were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on... [more]

The Grameen Bank is a Bangledesh organization that makes small loans to impoverished families in order to help those families establish themselves. The Grameen Bank and its founder Muhammad Yunus were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on October 13, 2006.

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Grameen Bank Founder Mohammed Yunus

Grameen Bank Founder Mohammed Yunus

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Shares in Bangladesh's largest mobile phone company Grameenphone soared more than 250 percent on their first day of trading Monday, propelling the benchmark stock index to a new record high. The company, majority-owned by Telenor of Norway, last month raised 71 million dollars by selling a 10 percent stake or 69.44 million shares in the impoverished country's largest-ever initial public offering, or IPO. Grameenphone shares closed up 253 percent at 177.3 taka from their listing price of 70 taka after hitting an intra-day high of 195 taka. The strong performance drove up the benchmark Dhaka Stock Exchange General Index by 22.61 percent, or 764.88 ... Read Full Story
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Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus calls the global economic crisis "an excellent opportunity to reflect and redesign" businesses, and devote creative ones to solving social problems. Yunus, who with his Grameen Bank -- which gives tiny loans to the very poor to help start businesses -- won the 2006 Peace Prize, told media here on Saturday: "Any problem has a potential of being addressed with a social business." "Social business being a business where you don't make money," he explained. "Zero profit for the investors." The ground-breaking "microcredit" banker from Bangladesh is backed by corporations like food giant Danone, global water group Veolia, sportswear ... Read Full Story
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According to Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of Grameen bank and author of Creating a World WIthout Poverty and Banker to the Poor, why are people like Sufiya Begum poor? please asnwer :] 10 points Related Entries Do You Think That Professor Muhammad Yunus With His “poor Bank Question Is Merely Advertising? How Many Wives Did The Founder Of Islam, Muhammad, Really Have? How Do We Know For Historical Fact That Muhammad Existed And He Was The Founder Of The Islamic Religion? Is Muhammad Yunus Reading Each & Every Response To His Question? What Three Things Are Forbidden In Islam According To Muhammad? Read Full Story
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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus brought on Saturday ideas for creating micro "social businesses" from Bangladesh to Germany, with backing from several of the world's leading corporations. Yunus, who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his development of micro-credits that allow poor people to start their own companies, said the global economic crisis offered the world "an opportunity to reflect and redesign" ways of doing business. "What is missing?" he asked a press conference in Wolfsburg, northern Germany, the home of Europe's biggest carmaker, Volkswagen, which hosted the event. "All business does not have to be done only to maximize profit, there can ... Read Full Story
Nobel Peace laureates Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh failed to attend World Peace Day commemoration ceremony in the scenic eastern Indonesian city of Ambon on Wednesday, December 25, 2009.  
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, gives a speech in Stockholm, Sweden, on Oct. 22 before the plenary session of the 4th European Development Days meeting. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus calls the ...  
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Holly Mosher is an award-winning filmmaker dedicated to bringing socially conscious films to the public. Her latest documentary, Bonsai: Celebrating the Work of Muhammad Yunus, focuses on the work of Nobel Prize winner Yunus and his microcredit organization Grameen Bank. Mosher will appear Saturday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. in Santa Monica as part of Empowerment Works’ Artist in Action Series. The event will offer a sneak preview of Bonsai to raise...  
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German sporting goods giant Adidas has inked a Memorandum of Understanding with the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus' Grameen to make low-cost shoes next year in Bangladesh for poor and barefoot of the w...  
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