Since the world was introduced to Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and his microfinance model in 2006 – when Yunus and his Grameen Bank received the Nobel Peace Prize – his central concept has spread to create social businesses in more ...
Tue 13 Mar 2012 by Marthe Lamp Sandvik | Read more »
Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, is internationally renowned as the pioneer of microfinance, having founded the Grameen Bank in 1983. Grameen provides financial services to those who are excluded from the tradit...
Wed 09 Mar 2011 by Kirsty McCaffery | Read more »
Microfinance in Scotland is nothing particularly new. In fact, lending small amounts of money to individuals who are otherwise excluded by conventional banking systems has been around for a long time. From the pre-war household support groups of the Me...
Wed 24 Mar 2010 by Robbie Marwick | Read more »
