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In 1994, Grameen Bank received the Independence Day Award, which is the highest government award. 13 October 2006, the Nobel Committee awarded Grameen Bank and its founder, Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below." [49] The award announcement also mentions that:
The Social Success Note is an outcome-based financing mechanism in which a commercial bank is incentivized to lend to social businesses by a donor, who provides a grant to the commercial bank representing market returns (in addition to the social business' loan repayments) when the social business meets predefined objectives. [24]
(For example, one Islamic bank—Al Rayan Bank in the UK—talks about "Fixed Term" deposits or savings accounts). [167] In both these Islamic and conventional accounts the depositor agrees to hold the deposit at the bank for a fixed amount of time. [168] In Islamic banking return is measured as "expected profit rate" rather than interest. [169 ...
The Grameen Bank, which is generally considered the first modern microcredit institution, was founded in 1983 by Muhammad Yunus. [2] Yunus began the project in a small town called Jobra, using his own money to deliver small loans at low-interest rates to the rural poor. Grameen Bank was followed by organizations such as BRAC in 1972 and ASA in ...
Bank Name [4] [5] Bank name (in Arabic) Head Office (in UAE) Headquarters Stock code (if applicable) [2] [3] National Bank of Bahrain: بنك البحرين الوطني
In 1987 [1] a Grameen program opened up in a country other than Bangladesh – Malaysia – and soon micro-credit banks based on the Grameen bank appeared in countries such as the Philippines, India, Nepal, Vietnam, China, Latin America, Africa, the United States, and Europe. The micro-finance model of Grameen has proved versatile and has ...
The Dubai-based budget carrier FlyDubai saw record profits of $572 million in 2023, boosted by carrying the most passengers ever across its network, the company announced Thursday. The state-owned ...
Grameen CyberNet Limited is an internet content, solution and service provider in Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh founded in July 1996 by Dr. Muhammad Yunus and Golam Mohiuddin, an entrepreneur promoting Apple Inc. in Bangladesh, as a joint venture between Grameen Fund, the venture capital arm of Grameen Bank, and CITech Limited, Mohiuddin's enterprise.