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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 .
The Grameen Bank is a microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans (known as microcredit) to the impoverished without requiring collateral. The system is based on the idea that the poor have skills that are underutilized.
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 ...
Grameen America presentation. Grameen America was founded upon the belief that Grameen Bank's microfinance lending system could succeed in urban America as it had in Bangladesh. Professor Yunus believed that microfinance should be put to work in the capital of international finance, New York City, in which a segment of the population do not ...
Grameen Bank became the first of several social businesses that Muhammad Yunus founded. [ citation needed ] In 2008, Muhammad Yunus and future YSB co-founder Saskia Bruysten met at the London School of Economics , where Muhammad Yunus was giving a talk on the promise of social business.
The film shows group meetings where community members recite the Sixteen Decisions that Grameen Bank uses to improve the lives of those it loans to and help ensure that the people are able to repay these loans. [4] The founder of Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, is a former Fulbright Scholar from Bangladesh.
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty is an autobiography of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus.The book describes Yunus' early life, moving into his college years, and into his years as a professor at Chittagong University.