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May 22,
2008 |
Concept for World's Poor Aids Richest Nation on Earth
CNN
A bank operating on a concept that has lifted thousands of people out of grinding poverty in the developing world has set its sights on helping the poverty-stricken in America Read
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May 22,
2008 |
Banker to the Poor Arrives in NYC
CNN
CNN covers Professor Yunus' inauguration of Grameen America and lending activities in Queens See Video
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May 15,
2008 |
Nobel Laureate Sees Promise in Loans
NPR
More than three decades ago, economics Professor Muhammad Yunus started The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. Now he's bringing its principles of micro-lending to the U.S., with a new branch in Queens, N.Y. Read
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May 5,
2008 |
US Gets Grameen Micro-Credit Bank
Al Jazeera
Grameen Bank, the micro-credit financier initially set up to help the poorest in Bangladesh, has opened its first branch in the United States Read
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May 2,
2008 |
Microlending in Queens
CBC Radio
It might surprise some people that a bank from the developing world would open a branch in New York City. But it's the mission of the Grameen Bank to find people who can't get traditional loans -- wherever they may be
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May 1,
2008 |
Bankers for the Unbanked
NPR - Brian Lehrer
Last month, microcredit lender Grameen Bank brought its unique style of lending to Queen’s mainly immigrant neighborhood of Jackson Heights Read
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April 29,
2008 |
Will Bangladeshi-Style Microlending Work in Queens
New York Times - City Room
Wall Street may well be a global center of finance, with billions of dollars in capital flowing back and forth each day Read
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April 29,
2008 |
Nobel Prize Winner Brings Finance to Queens
NY1
Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus has opened up shop in New York, testing his micro-lending model that helped lift thousands out of poverty in Bangladesh Read
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April 26,
2008 |
Grameen Bank Opens in Queens
WNYC Radio
With a jumbo pair of scissors and a big round of applause, Dr. Muhammad Yunus officially opened Grameen America in Jackson Heights Friday Read
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April 1,
2008 |
Grameen Bank Helps Struggling Women in Queens
WNYC
Late last year, Grameen America opened its doors in Queens and the lender has already made loans to more than 100 women Read
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April 1,
2008 |
Lending Plan Won Prize, but Will It Work Here?
New York Times
Grameen America, in Queens, is the international organization’s first United States venture Read
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March 20,
2008 |
Nobel winner lends a helping hand in Jackson Hts
Forest Hills Ledger
Grameen America, an offshoot of Grameen Bank, opened its pioneer branch in November in a heavily South Asian area on 74th Street Read
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March 10,
2008 |
Small Loans, Significant Impact
Washington Post
After Success in Poor Nations, Grameen Bank Tries New York Read
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February 26,
2008 |
PODER Magazine Announces First-Ever Philanthropy Forum Dedicated
Earthtimes
Bangladeshi banker, economist and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Prize in 2006 for his work with the Grameen Bank Read
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February 18,
2008 |
Bangladesh Brings Grameen Bank Concept to US
AHN
Grameen America will offer micro loans to Americans who do not have bank accounts, which is estimated to reach 28 million in the world's richest nation Read
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February 15,
2008 |
Interview transcript: Muhammad Yunus
Financial Times
UK This is the edited transcript of an interview with Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank. Daniel Pimlott spoke to Mr Yunus
in New York on February 13
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February 15,
2008 |
Yunus takes microfinance to New York
Financial Times
On the second floor of a run-down building in Queens, squeezed between a sari boutique and a tiny store selling Bollywood DVDs
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February 16,
2008 |
Poor Americans who are treated as second-class citizens
India Daily
It is not race, religion or anything as such. Rich Americans have deprived the poor and created a national infrastructure of economic slavery. In a capitalist nation
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January 23,
2008 |
Commentary Muhammad Yunus, Forbes
The process of imagining a future world of our liking is a major missing element in our education system
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October 18,
2007 |
Father of microloans sees end to poverty
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It has spread to the US, where Grameen America is applying the concepts in an immigrant neighborhood in Queens in New York City
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September 28,
2007 |
Experian Establishes Unique Data
Reporting Relationship With Grameen America
Earthtimes
Experian(R), a global information services company, today announced
the two companies have established a unique data reporting
relationship to support Grameen America's business
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May 19,
2007 |
Hillary, Yunus talks on Grameen America in US
The New Nation
With a view to establishing "Grameen America," a bank for the poor in the United States, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Prof Dr Muhammad Yunus held talks in Washington on May 17
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