The phenomenon of Bangladesh Grameen Bank Bangladesh Grameen Bank (Grameen) is an important phenomenon of modern times. The brainchild of Dr. Mohammed Yunus‚ a US educated professor who came to teach at Bangladesh’s University of Chittagong‚ Grameen is the pioneer of Microfinance. Microfinance‚ a lending practice for the poorest of the poor‚ which was conceptualised by Dr. Yunus in the course of his field work with his students in Bangladesh‚ has now spread across the world (Holcombe‚ 1995‚ p 4
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little information about the quality of the borrower (whether a good/safe‚ or a bad/risky borrower.) As a result‚ the bank cannot charge a higher interest rate to compensate the risk of the bad/ risky borrowers as those rates might not be viable for the safe borrowers. This adverse selection problem of the bank is solved by the Grameen Bank lending model. The crux of the Grameen Bank lending model is the feature of joint liability. This feature states that if a certain member of the group is unable
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Grameen Bank: Taking Capitalism to the Poor Evaristus Mainsah* MBA ’04 Schuyler R. Heuer MBA ’04 Aprajita Kalra MBA/MIA ’04 Columbia Business School Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Qiulin Zhang MPA ’04 Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs This paper was written as part of the course Emerging Financial Markets taught by David O. Beim‚ professor of professional practice‚ at Columbia Business School in fall 2003. The authors are
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Introduction: Grameen Bank (GB) has reversed conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral and created a banking system based on mutual trust‚ accountability‚ participation and creativity. Grameen Bank provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh‚ without any collateral. At Grameen Bank‚ credit is a cost effective weapon to fight poverty and it serves as a catalyst in the overall development of socio-economic conditions of the poor who have been kept outside
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Economics Program at the University of Chittagong‚ observed that banks did not extend their credit schemes to the rural poor as they were not considered creditworthy. In this situation‚ the rural poor were forced to approach moneylenders who charged exorbitant rates of interest. In 1976‚ Yunus launched The Grameen Bank Project‚ on an experimental basis to study the framework of banking services for the rural poor. The objectives of the Grameen Bank Project were: •Providing banking services to the rural
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Grameen Bank | | |[pic] | |Type |Body Corporate (Bank Ordinance) | |Industry |Finance | |Founded |1983 | |Headquarters |Dhaka‚ Bangladesh
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repayment rates. 2. The biggest strength of Grameen Bank lies in bringing financial services to poor people and making it financial sustainable by the economies of scale effect. Some of the other advantages are that the bank offers tailor-made services to the poor people. Also‚ the costumers are called members so they have the feelings of “belongingness”. Moreover‚ Grameen Bank focuses on area which is largely untapped and has huge potential. 3. Grameen banks not only provides credit to its borrowers
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GRAMEEN BANK Poverty is not created by the poor people. So we shouldn’t give them an accusing look. They are the victims. Poverty has been created by the economic and social system that we have designed for the world. It is the institutions that we have built‚ and feel so proud of‚ which created poverty. It is the concepts we developed to understand the reality around us‚ made us see things wrongly. The essence of my
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considered have an equivalent monetary expression. (3) The only channel of communication between individuals is prices. 4) All the social relations and social ambits are considered as market exchange transaction. Concept of Microcredit and Grameen Bank Poverty is one of the vital problems of the third world countries‚ and to elevate poverty microcredit has become the most popular approach to address this undesirable phenomenon. According to Jonathan Murdoch‚ Chairman of UN Expert Group on Poverty
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http://socialentrepreneurshipximb.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/review-of-the-book-banker-to-the-poor-by-muhammad-yunus-by-lg-9/ Social Entrepreneurship exploring the unexplored………. GRAMEEN BANK – The bank for the poor. In 2006 Mohammed Yunus and the Grameen bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize‚ “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”. Analyzed the root cause of the misery of the rural women of Bangladesh who work hard day and night and are still
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