Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Bangladeshi Nobel peace laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus gestures in front of the court after being sentenced for six ...

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus this month may provide a lift to the already rapidly growing field of microfinance, and bring financial services to a ...

Asia: Politics pulls down the microfinance pioneer The forced removal of Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus as head of the lender casts a shadow over an institution that has flourished in Bangladesh ...

While Bangladesh’s new “caretaker,” Muhammad Yunus, has been widely recognized for pioneering the field of microfinance, mainstream economics has largely dismissed insights from this development model ...

In a society obsessed with maximizing profit, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and pioneer of microfinance through Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, has a new goal: to get business and finance to ...

The new government was being formed a day after Bangladesh’s longtime leader, facing fierce protests, fled the country. By Saif HasnatShayeza Walid and Anupreeta Das Saif Hasnat and Shayeza Walid ...

DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladesh court has sentenced the country's only Nobel laureate, Mohammad Yunus, to six months in jail over labour law violations, a crime he says he did not commit, days ahead of ...