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• Day Six: Old Friends and Off to the Airport

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  My last day in the country was on the beginning of the Bangladeshi weekend – Friday.  That meant somewhat less traffic, a blessing to be sure.  I spent the three hours, starting at 10am, with my former research assistant, Abdul Mannan Talukdar.  He is the first Area Manager in the history of Grameen who started ...
  4 days ago

• Day Five: Back in the Grameen Headquarters

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  I arrived at the Grameen Complex at 10:30am on Thursday, after having visited my old dentist (who does quality work for a fraction of the price charged back home).  Before I began my first meeting, I noticed the almost frenetic activity around me in each office I entered.  My good friend Mir Akhtar Hossain, who ...
  4 days ago

• Day Four: Transit Back to Dhaka, and a Reunion

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  I awoke on Wednesday in what we in the U.S. would consider a large tin shed.  As the manager had warned, mice had run amok in the rafters at times during the night.  Fortunately, I was able to tune it out after a while.  Soon I was off to the Zianpur bazaar to say my goodbyes to the local Grameen staff, the ...
  4 days ago

• Day Three: Grameen Villages – Back to Kholshi via Narandia

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  Microfinance Client Shaheeda Begum After a delicious Bengali breakfast of vegetables and paratha, I began a field trip that would ultimately bring me to Kholshi, where I did most of the research for my book Small Loans, Big Dreams.  But first I asked to see a Grameen Bank center meeting, to see how the process has ...
  1 week ago

• Day Two: Grameen Power and Moving to the Field

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  Muhammad Yunus and Royston Braganza Royston and I spent the first few hours on Monday back in the Grameen Complex in Dhaka.  The most exciting meeting was with two retired Grameen Bank officials — Fazley Rabbi and, briefly, Abser Kamal – both of whom now work with Grameen Shakti (Energy).  Shakti, a sister ...
  1 week ago

• Back in Bangladesh

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, and the author of “Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World” (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Below is Part Two of this journey to assess the state of microfinance with Grameen Foundation partners ...
  1 week ago

• Why VirtuArte?

  
  Disruptive Women in Health Care — Authority: 125
  The following post by Debbie Myers , Founder of Virtuarte, is part of Disruptive Women’s “The Value of Health: Creating Economic Security in the Developing World” series. Deborah E. Myers has more than 25 years of experience in international economic development, including advocacy, public policy and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Micro-credit programmes beat global meltdown: Muhammad Yunus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) Microcredit programmes were able to weather the global meltdown as compared to the big conventional banks that were on the verge of collapse, Nobel laureate and noted economist Muhammad Yunus said here Wednesday.“While big conventional banks with all their collateral were collapsing, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Muhammad Yunus to deliver Lok Sabha memorial lecture

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Dec 8 (IANS) Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will deliver the second Professor Hiren Mukerjee Memorial Annual Parliamentary Lecture Wednesday evening in the Central Hall of Parliament House.Yunus, managing director of Bangladesh’s Grameen Bank, will speak on “Social Business: A Step Toward Creating a New ...
  2 weeks ago

• VIDEO: Chrysler ad gets political, advocates for release of Myanmar Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 740
  Filed under: Videos , Chrysler , Celebrities Chrysler 300 in political spot - click above to watch the video This is... different. To summarize, a new commercial by Chrysler is agitating for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmars (a.k.a. Burmas) pro-democracy leader and lightning rod who has ...
  3 weeks ago

• Have a Merry Microloan Christmas

  
  Joe Duck — Authority: 120
  This year I won’t be giving out more than a few tiny token presents to my friends and family, but I will be giving some of the best gifts I have ever given.   The Nobel prize winning efforts of the Grameen Bank have sponsored the poor with small loans to start businesses, and this tactic has proven to be one of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Muhammad Yunus - Creating a World Without Poverty

  
  The Business Model Database (tbmdb.com) - A blog about business models — Authority: 120
  An inspirational presentation by Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi banker and economist, developer of the microcredit concept , founder of Grameen Bank awarded with the Nobel Peace Price, for "creating economic and social development from below". "We reverse what the traditional bank does. The basic principle of ...
  3 weeks ago

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