32 million subscribers (as of June 2011)‚ Grameenphone is the largestcellular operator in the country. It is a joint venture enterprise between Telenor and Grameen TelecomCorporation‚ a non-profit sister concern of the internationally acclaimed microfinance organization andcommunity development bank Grameen Bank. Grameenphone was the first company to introduceGSM technology in Bangladesh. It also established the first 24-hour Call Center to support itssubscribers. With the slogan Stay Close ‚ stated
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CONTENTS Message of Chief Minister of Orissa Message of Minister‚ Women & Child Development Message from Asst. Country Director‚ CARE-INDIA Message from CGM‚ NABARD Regional Office‚ Bhubaneswar Message from CGM‚ SBI Local Head Office‚ Bhubaneswar Message from GM‚ SIDBI‚ Regional Office‚ Bhubaneswar Message from DGM‚ UCO Bank (SLBC)‚ Bhubaneswar Preface of Secretary WCD From the desk of Director‚ Mission Shakti List of Abbreviations Chapter – I : micro-Finance and Women’s
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Lee Yeonjoo‚ 2013230049 silver_517@naver.com‚ 010-3000-7827 Academic English“Alacrity”Class Assignment Submitted on Mar. 14‚ 2013 Outline of a Text Topic: Jessica Jackley Presentation Title: “Self-Introduction of Jessica Jackley: Our Stories Matter Very Much” (On TED.com it’s “Poverty‚ Money and Love”) Source & Date: TED.com‚ posted in Oct. 2010‚ watched in class in weeks 1-2 Length: about 3‚700 words Introduction (Hook) 1. Our stories matter (par. 1). 2. Thesis Statement: “These
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BULDING SOCIAL BUSINESS Social business is a non-loss and non-dividend company dedicated entirely to achieve a social goal. Muhammad Yunus‚ a Bangladeshi banker. Economist‚ founder of Grameen bank and Nobel Peace Prize recipient explains in his book what social business is and how it can help the development of our communities. Yunus‚ previously was a professor of economics where he developed the idea and concepts of micro-credit and micro-finance. In the early seventies‚ Bangladesh was in a terrible
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Using Indian/Bangladeshi Model of Micro Financing to Develop Entrepreneurship amongst U.S. Prisoners Re-entering the Community Dylan Hood‚ Sophia Loupakos‚ Mary Kate Wagner Loyola University Chicago Introduction At the end of calendar year‚ it is expected that the adult prison population in Illinois will be 35.1% over rated capacity‚ totaling 47‚054 inmates in a correctional system with a rated capacity of 32‚609. There also exist 51.1 percent recidivism rates. One of the
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Faiz and S Zohir (2000): ’Policy for Employment Generation in the Informal Sector of Bangladesh ’‚ prepared for the National Action Plan for Non-formal Employment Generation‚ Planning Commission‚ Government of Bangladesh‚ November 13. CDF (2002): Microfinance Statistics‚ Volume 14‚ June‚ Credit Development Forum‚ Dhaka. Hashimi‚ S M‚ S R Shchuler and A P Riley (1996): ’Rural Credit Programmes 1 As one author notes (Zaman 2003)‚ "The growth of the non-governmental and Women ’s Empowerment in Bangladesh
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An assignment on NGOs activities in rural development: A criticalappraisal. Introduction: Non-Government Organization (NGOs) started in this country in a limited scale as relief provides following the devastating cyclone in 1970‚ which claimed colossal human lives and properties in the coastal belt and the off-shore islands. Devastations caused by the War of Liberation in 1971 prompted other foreign and newly established local NGOs to mount relief andrehabilitation Programs.Recognizing the need
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Social Entrepreneurship Review of the book “Banker to the Poor”- by MUHAMMAD YUNUS- by LG 9 ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Prof. Mohammed Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He previously was a professor of economics where he developed the concept of microcredit. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank in 2006; Yunus and the Grameen bank were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize‚ “for their
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UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT POLICY 2002 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ABBREVIATIONS………………………………………………………………… FOREWORD 1.0 2.0 INTRODUCTION SME DEVELOPMENT 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 ………………………………………………………………………………. IN TANZANIA…………………………………………………….……… Definition ………………………………………..........…………. Importance of Small and Medium Enterprises ………………………… Government Effort…………………………………………… ……………… 5 Constraints faced by SMEs in Tanzania ………………………………
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Social Business * Tahmid Md. Istiaq Arman Social Business was first defined by Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof. Muhammad Yunus‚ as a non-dividend company that is created to address and solve a social problem. In a social business‚ the investors/owners can gradually recoup the money invested‚ but cannot take any dividend beyond that point. The purpose of the investment is purely to achieve one or more social objectives through the operation of the
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