Grameen Bank

Building Social Business is a book about social enterprise written by Muhammad Yunus. Muhammad Yunus is a social entrepreneur, economist, banker, and civil servant leader from Bangladesh. He is known for founding the Grameen Bank which is a microfinance organization and community development bank. Yunus is a well-known proponent of microfinance and microcredit. Due to his efforts in making a change through microfinance and microcredit and other noble causes, Yunus has been given several awards including

The United Nations has established a list of 8 goals that were to be achieved. These were eradicating poverty and extreme hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women, reducing child mortality rates, improving maternal health care, combating HIV/AIDS and other deadly diseases, ensuring environmental stability, and finally to develop a global partnership for development.  Although these are arduous tasks, several of these goals are being accomplished with

Warby Parker is an outstanding eye glasses company that sells eye glasses as well as sunglasses to people in the United States. Warby Parker demands ethical behavior. This means that they focus on fairness, equality, and they act in way in which making their customers first is a priority. When running any kind of business, it is important to make it about the customers because they are the ones that matter. Every time a pair of glasses is bought from Warby Parker, a pair is donated in a different

Some of MIPED’s weaknesses include: 1. MIPED’s selective funding may lead to an ethical tradeoff where the company has restricted its focus on the economy within the Mayaro and neighbouring communities (MIPED, 2013), while there is an ethical responsibility to provide the same access to funding to other areas and other interested persons outside of their current parameters, throughout Trinidad and Tobago. 2. MIPED runs the risk of reaching a plateau in the growth and quality of their portfolio or

financial services and voluntary and non-voluntary dropouts. This paper also argues that microcredit is the not best way to help the poorest of the poor. This paper used two kind of primary data of source, firstly they conducted study in 1999 by World Bank as a part of study titled “Voices of the Poor”. It was organized in 8 rural and 2 urban cities of Bangladesh. (Nabi et. al., 1999) and the second study done in 2 rural and 5 urban cities of Bangladesh from the 1999 to 2000 and the title was “Listening

sustainable financial services and voluntary and non-voluntary dropouts. This paper also argues that microcredit is the not best way to help the poor. This paper used two kinds of primary data of source, firstly they conducted the study in 1999 by World Bank as a part of the study titled "Voices of the Poor". It was organized in 8 rural and 2 urban cities of Bangladesh. (Nabi et. al., 1999) and the second study done in 2 rural and 5 urban cities of Bangladesh from 1999 to 2000 and the title was "Listening

The individuals from Grameen Bank are urged to plant trees, develop kitchen enclosures and assemble houses and clean restrooms, which are planned to address environmental concerns. The Grameen Bank has deliberately focused on women understanding that their support in social development is essential for financial development in light of the fact that women assume

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SUCH A CRISIS IN THE FUTURE? by M. Umer Chapra* (A paper prepared for presentation at the Forum on the Global Financial Crisis to be held at the Islamic Development Bank on 25 October 2008) ___________________ * The author is Research Adviser at the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). This paper is a revised and updated version of the keynote Forum lecture delivered by him at the inaugural session of the Eighth Harvard University Forum on Islamic

There are six credit institutions and four MDIs, which are complementing commercial banks in the provision of financial products and services to the population. In addition, 20 insurance companies are licensed and regulated by the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA). The financial structure also comprises of the microfinance institutions