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...Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work in poverty reduction after helping to develop microfinance through his company Grameen Bank in the 1980s in Bangladesh, then one of the world’s poorest...
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...His Grameen Bank has foreign supporters ranging from Hillary Clinton to Jennifer Lopez....
...Third, according to Dercon, is the role of non-governmental organisations like BRAC and the Grameen Bank, which provide a safety net and give some poor people a lift....
...Ghosh, the son of a sweetshop owner, studied in Bangladesh where he saw the microfinance model pioneered by Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize-winning founder of Grameen Bank....
...Bank for their pioneering work....
...and medium-sized enterprises, and Muhammad Yunus, another Nobel laureate whose Grameen Bank pioneered microcredit in Bangladesh....
...The septuagenarian Bangladeshi founder of Grameen Bank won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering microcredit — loans for entrepreneurs too poor to get traditional bank loans, many of them women....
...Inspired by his pioneering Grameen Bank, scores of charitable groups across the developing world started small-scale microfinance projects, using Grameen’s “group lending” model, where small groups of women...
...In the social sector as well, philanthropists and impact investors seek the holy grail of scale, citing examples such as Teach for America, now expanded into Teach for All, or the Grameen Bank, which not...
...“In Grameen Bank, our basic rule is that we won’t punish anybody for anything. So we work with them; help them to restore themselves and if the borrower dies nothing has to be repaid.”...
...Muhammad Yunus, for example, is founder of Grameen Bank, which provides credit for Bangladesh’s poorest people....
...None of this is a defense of the payday lending industry or of big banks. There are millions of things to criticise about more established consumer finance companies....
...The model has echoes of Grameen Bank, the microfinance company founded by Muhammad Yunus....
...She hit on microfinance as the best solution after attending a talk by Muhammad Yunus, pioneer banker to the poor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his Grameen Bank, which lent small but life-changing sums...
...Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank , the microfinance pioneer founded by Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel peace laureate, is set to come under full government oversight for the first time....
...Sir Bob Geldof Musician and activist Prof Muhammad Yunus Nobel Prize laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank Paul Polman Chief Executive, Unilever Lord Hastings Global Head of Citizenship, KPMG International...
...Muhammad Yunus, founder of Bangladesh’s pioneering Grameen Bank, even won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his development and promotion of a concept that would, in his words, “put poverty in the museum”....
...Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi Nobel Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank, the microcredit provider, occasioned more discussion, with some feeling others had been pioneers of the sector too....
...But Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that, in the continuing efforts to achieve it, microcredit must play a major part.”...
...Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi founder of Grameen Bank, claims that entrepreneurship can offset the flaws of capitalism....
...Microfinance’s most famous exponent, Mr Yunus, and his pioneering Grameen Bank won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on poverty alleviation....
...This was the first year India was represented in the New York global finals, where Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, was also present....
...He said a culture of micro-finance built up over many years in Bangladesh by pioneers such as the Grameen Bank had laid the ground for expanding finance to SMEs and other parts of the economy previously...
..., the pioneering microfinance bank, to Bangladesh....
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