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Sustainable financial system: Agriculture sector holds the key
Sustainable financial system: Agriculture sector holds the key Responses by banks and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) to the policy initiatives related to sustainable banking and finance are inspiring. Notable changes have taken place in terms of greater financial inclusion, higher access to finance, and increased geographical penetration in the last few years. According to the current available information, four in five households in Bangladesh have access to financial services...
Financial tools: Bangladesh Bank sets the ball rolling
Financial tools: Bangladesh Bank sets the ball rolling Policymakers/regulators and market players are the key supply-side stakeholders of the sustainable financing initiatives that are mainly related to financial inclusion, agricultural and SME financing, green and sustainable energy financing. These issues have received notable importance in the policy documents of the Bangladesh government's ministries. Several government agencies are also engaged in promoting initiatives of the finan...
Grameen Telecom arranges Social Biz Design
Grameen Telecom arranges Social Biz Design Grameen Telecom Trust (GTT) organized its 100th In-house Executive Social Business Design Lab Monday at Jobra, Chittagong, the birthplace of microcredit. A total of 2,789 NUs are in progress, who are turning unemployment into entrepreneurship and have created 2,368 jobs. In Nobin Udyokta (NU) Program, GTT supports through equity participation the next generation of potential entrepreneurs, aged between 18-35 years. For female the age limi...
Social Business Forum held in Malaysia
Social Business Forum held in Malaysia Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was the chief guest at a special one day international social business forum held in Ipoh Malaysia Sunday organised by MyHarapan, a leading Malaysian youth organisation, together with the Chief Minister of Perak Dato Seri DiRaja Dr Zambry Bin Abdul Kadir, on the eve of the Pangkor International Development Dialogue to open in Ipoh on September 5. In his address to the forum, Professor Yunus urged the youth to...
Social Business Youth Summit 2016
Social Business Youth Summit 2016 Social Business Youth Summit (SBYS) is a unique platform, comprised of leading youths, where youths can interact with the most insightful and knowledgeable people in the world of social business. It is an annual event organised by SBYA (Social Business Youth Alliance) Global where the main aim is to help youngsters so that they can be connected with the real life hustlers in social business scene. Moreover, this youth summit has provided the resources i...
Low-interest loans for farmers
Low-interest loans for farmers The central back has simplified the arrangements for disbursement of agricultural loans among the farmers with the aim of making it less costly, according to new farm loan policy unveiled by its governor this week.From now on, Bangladesh Bank (BB) will allow agents of the scheduled banks to disburse agriculture loans in order to restrict farm loan distribution by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs), a good many of w...
Fisheries need better deal
Fisheries need better deal The fisheries sector is yet to get the importance it deserves in view of the country's growing population which is still increasing by 1.8 million every year despite a fall in its growth rate. While meat is beyond the reach of most of the people, fish alone meets their nutritional needs. A country like ours, dotted with countless rivers and rivulets, has great potential to fetch a good harvest of fish given necessary care and support. It is said, in oceans, ri...
Bravo, the soccer princesses of rural Bangladesh!
Bravo, the soccer princesses of rural Bangladesh! The notion of women in Bangladesh sport dates as far back as the Pakistan days in the 1960s. The country was then called East Pakistan, the eastern part of Pakistan. Despite being created on a religious identity, women in the country were, surprisingly, relatively free in its early days. West Pakistan formed its women's cricket teams just fifteen years after the country's creation in 1947. Like in the movie industry, women in sports were...
Women in agriculture: The issue of land ownership
Women in agriculture: The issue of land ownership Until recently women in Bangladesh hardly participated in agricultural activities outside their homes. A number of studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s found that their contribution to socio-economic development was not visible due to a set of social norms that enabled men to dominate women. But it is found that women work more hours than men particularly in low-income households, more in agriculture than in non-agricultural economic...
MasterCard-BURO business literacy programme boosts smaller firms
MasterCard-BURO business literacy programme boosts smaller firms BURO Bangladesh, a leading microfinance institution, has provided financial and business literacy to 10,000 Tk 10 account holders with support from MasterCard to foster vibrancy in the rural economy. The programme took support from the Bangladesh Bank Revolving Refinancing Fund for financial inclusion, offering training to ensure effective use of the microfinance. The initiative has two parts; one is to provide tr...
An alternative to microcredit-based development approach
An alternative to microcredit-based development approach The idea of Community-Driven Development (CDD) became popular in development discourse when the world leaders started thinking critically about the pitfalls of traditional microcredit-based poverty reduction approach for the developing countries and sought for an alternative. CDD approach was developed in the 1980s as a relatively innovative type of participatory, demand-driven project support in which poor people and their institu...
Yunus centre now in Azerbaijan
Yunus centre now in Azerbaijan Yunus Social Business Centre (YSBC) will be set up in Azerbaijan State Economical University. A MoU was signed between Yunus Centre and the university authority recently. This YSBC will be 24th initiative of Nobel Peace Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus around the world that will facilitate the promotion and research of social business in the country. Prof Yunus visited Azerbaijan recently. President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliy...
Yunus addresses forum of bankers in China
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus addressed a one- day forum of bankers and investment fund managers on Inclusive Finance and Social Business organised by Shanghai Jiao Tong (commercial) University on its campus....
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