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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Grameen Bank | | |[pic] | |Type |Body Corporate (Bank Ordinance) | |Industry |Finance | |Founded |1983 | |Headquarters |Dhaka‚ Bangladesh
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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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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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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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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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Introduction To Social Business Social business is a cause-driven business. In a social business‚ the investors/owners can gradually recoup the money invested‚ but cannot take any dividend beyond that point. Purpose of the investment is purely to achieve one or more social objectives through the operation of the company‚ no personal gain is desired by the investors. The company must cover all costs and make profit‚ at the same time achieve the social objective‚ such as‚ healthcare for the poor‚
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1589 | DhSunday‚ S VOL 20 NO 157 REGD NO DA 1589 | Dhaka‚ Sunday‚ September 16 2012 eptember 16 2012 http://www.fe-bd.com/index.php?ref=MjBfMDlfMTZfMTJfMV85Ml8xNDM1ODg= VOL 20 NO 157 REGD NO DA 1589 | Dhaka‚ Sunday‚ September 16 2012 Grameen Bank: Interest of borrowers be safeguarded‚ Yunus’ prestige protected Dr Yunus seems to have given more emphasis on social business than microcredit. The deposit of the poor was diverted to social business and his Yunus Centre is working through
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credit constrained. The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh is considered to be the founder organization of this program. To fight against poverty NGOs in Bangladesh have taken micro-credit program as the way of poverty alleviation. Almost all the NGOs and GOs along with
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