A senior official of the European Investment Bank says the regional lending agency is keen to double its funding for Bangladesh, but she expressed concern over human rights as the country endures ...

Professor Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank, which he founded, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below.” Since then, ...

Developmental economist Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, last Friday delivered this year's Dean's Lecture titled "Social Business Can Address Pressing Social Problems.". Dean of ...

As donors took a more ‘market-based result-oriented approach’, more philanthropic investment firms jumped into the business, equity investments in microfinance grew by 60% every year from 2006 ...

Muhammad Yunus on the Race to ... Yunus’s Grameen Bank disbursed some $37 billion in collateral-free ... He says that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has offered to share ...

Muhammad Yunus was born in 1940 in Chittagong, a seaport in Bangladesh. The third of 14 children. He was educated at Dhaka University and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study economics at ...

The European Investment Fund has been involved in helping the European microfinance sector since 2000, ... Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank represented by Mosammat Taslima Begum, ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A senior official of the European Investment Bank says the regional lending agency is keen to double its funding for Bangladesh, but she expressed concern over human ...