A Bangladesh court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Nobel laureate and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus for failing to appear on charges he violated labor laws. The Dhaka court ordered ...

Microcredit is a great idea with a problem: the bank that made it famous. Grameen Bank, launched in Bangladesh in 1976 by an economics professor named Muhammad Yunus, popularized the idea of giving ...

THIS SUMMER'S SPECTACLE OF WORLD BANK officials lobbying Congress for more foreign aid money was an embarrassment, or should have been. In the past half-century the bank has poured a staggering $450 ...

Grameen America is upping its game in impact investing. That’s potentially especially good news for low-income women looking for microloans to jump-start a business. The microfinance organization just ...

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 ...

Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize-winning founder of Grameen Bank, said recent moves by Bangladeshi officials to exert control over the trail-blazing microfinancing bank presage a government takeover, ...

BUSES and trucks barrel down Mirpur Road, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, blasting their horns and leaving trails of black smoke to settle on rickshaws and oxcarts. By the side of the road a high brick wall ...

It's pretty safe to say that three years ago no one could have predicted that one of the few financial institutions to be opening new branches and expanding lending in America would be a Bangladeshi ...

HE IS probably Bangladesh's most celebrated citizen. Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel peace prize, founded Grameen Bank in 1983 to provide tiny loans to poor rural women. Grameen became a ...

The case of Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize-winning founder of the Grameen Bank, gets curiouser and curiouser. Earlier today, Grameen announced that Bangladesh’s Central Bank had fired Yunus, ...

As the AP adds, "the ruling capped a month-long dispute between the government and Yunus — an outspoken government critic — over the right of the 'banker to the poor' to continue as managing director ...