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Grameen Bank (Bengali: গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক) is a microfinance, specialized community development bank founded in Bangladesh. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It provides small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit") [ 7 ] to the impoverished without requiring collateral .
Regardless of whether the applicant applied for a police check through one of the eight state police agencies or the Australian Federal Police, or an ACIC approved broker, all police checks are completed through ACIC's National Police Checking Service. Applicants who will receive a certificate titled a "National Police Check" if the background ...
The Ministry of Legal Affairs and Attorney General's Chambers ensures that proper legal services are provided to the Government of Guyana, as well as statutory services to the public. The Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs is the head of the chambers. [ 1 ]
His local bank refused. He took the case clear up to the top bank in Dhaka, finally securing credit to loan to local borrowers. Thus, in January 1977, the Grameen Bank was born. This bank started under completely new principles, different than any other bank in Bangladesh at the time. Its premise was that each borrower had a human right to credit.
Republic Bank acquired Scotiabank in 2019, which increased Republic Bank's share of Guyana's assets and deposits to 51%. [16] Bank of Baroda announced plans to sell off their Guyana operations, but reversed their decision, possibly due to the discovery of off-shore oil as motivation to stay in the country. [17]
Grameen Shikkha or Grameen Education was established in 1997 to promote mass education in rural areas, provide financial support in the form of loans and grants for the purpose of education, use IT for alleviation of illiteracy and development of education, promote new technologies and innovate ideas and methods for development of education ...
In the 20th century, crime in Guyana was not properly documented, however the country was known to be extremely dangerous and violent [citation needed].The chart below shows the Guyanese homicide rate from 1990 until 2020, [1] where Guyana reported a peak intentional homicide rate of 28 murders per 100,000 in 2003 and a low of 10 murders per 100,000 in 2000.
CreditAccess Grameen (CA Grameen) was established in 1999 by Vinatha M. Reddy, who was inspired by the book “Give Us Credit” by Alex Counts, President & CEO of Grameen Foundation USA. Reddy, who was then running an NGO — "T Muniswammapa Trust", managed to obtain a US$35,000 grant from the Grameen Foundation to create a replica in India.