Grameen Bank

Why SKS's Dr Akula has become Drakula for many

SKS Microfinance is in the doghouse because it chose to finance the poor the capitalist way - by raising money from the market. While there is much to be said for doing it the NGO way or by becoming another Grameen Bank, for-profit microfinance should not be a no-no. It is the only quickly scalable model.

Bangladesh Minister accuses Yunus of campaign against country

Bangladeshi Finance Minister on Monday accused Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus of running a "harmful campaign" against the country.

Bangladesh govt will destroy Grameen bank: Founder

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says Bangladesh's latest move to expand the power of the government-appointed chairman at the pioneering Grameen Bank he founded could hurt its millions of poor borrowers

Poor being deprived of their ownership of Grameen Bank: Yunus

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus says Bangladesh's latest move to expand the power of the government-appointed chairman at the pioneering Grameen Bank he founded could hurt the millions of poor borrowers.

Bangladesh slams Clinton over Grameen comments

Recent comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that she hopes Bangladesh's government will not interfere in internationally acclaimed microlender Grameen Bank were unwarranted.

Clinton warns against undermining Grameen Bank

Clinton said that the micro-credit institution was a "tremendous" model for the developing world and its structure should not be tinkered with.