DHAKA, May 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday warned Bangladesh's government not to undermine pioneering microlender Grameen Bank, saying it was a key driver in the South ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) – Bangladesh passed a law bringing the pioneering Grameen Bank under closer central bank supervision, a move bitterly opposed by its founder Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus who ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — 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 ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh passed a law bringing the pioneering Grameen Bank under closer central bank supervision, a move bitterly opposed by its founder Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus who warns ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh — A labor court in Bangladesh’s capital Monday sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to six months in jail for violating the country’s labor laws. Yunus, who pioneered ...

The government of Bangladesh is considering nationalizing and breaking up the widely admired Grameen Bank, which pioneered the business of lending small amounts of money to poor women who want to ...

Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, founder-manager of the Grameen Bank, Bangladesh, at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2009. Credit: Wikipedia/World ...

Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize-winning founder of Grameen Bank, said recent moves by Bangladeshi officials to exert control over the trail-blazing microfinancing bank presage a government takeover, ...

Just before the global financial crisis struck in 2008, Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus came to the U.S. to do just about the last thing any mainstream economist would have ...

The global financial crisis has highlighted a curious success story: A bank that doles out loans to some of the world's poorest, least-creditworthy people continues to have a payback rate of nearly ...