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Grameen Bank ( Bengali: গ্রামীণ ব্যাংক) is a microfinance specialized community development bank founded in Bangladesh. [ 4][ 5] It provides small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit") [ 6] to the impoverished without requiring collateral . Grameen Bank is a statutory public authority. It is originated in ...
Bangladesh Bank ( Bengali: বাংলাদেশ ব্যাংক) is the central bank of Bangladesh and is a member of the Asian Clearing Union. It is fully owned by the Government of Bangladesh . The bank is active in developing green banking. [ 3] and financial inclusion policy and is an important member of the Alliance for Financial ...
Sheikh Hasina Wazed[ a] (born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again from January 2009 to August 2024. [ 3][ 4] She is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father and first president of Bangladesh. Having served for a combined total ...
Grameen Bank. Microcredit. Social business. Muhammad Yunus[ a] (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi entrepreneur, banker, economist, politician, and civil society leader who has been serving as the Chief Adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh since 8 August 2024. [ 1] Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the ...
15 August 1964 (age 59) Spouse. Selina Rawshan. Alma mater. University of Dhaka. University of Birmingham. Abdur Rouf Talukder is a former governor of Bangladesh Bank served during 2022–2024. Prior to this position, he had served as the Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Finance. He previously served as a director of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.
BRAC is an international development organisation based in Bangladesh. In order to receive foreign donations, BRAC was subsequently registered under the NGO Affairs Bureau of the Government of Bangladesh. BRAC is the largest non-governmental development Organisation in the world, in terms of the number of employees as of September 2016. [ 3 ...
Some 30% of those highly sought-after jobs are reserved for relatives of veterans who fought in Bangladesh’s war of independence from Pakistan in 1971, a seminal moment in the nation’s history ...
Fazle Kabir (born July 4, 1955) is a Bangladeshi bureaucrat, economist, and central banker. [ 1][ 2][ 3] He served as the 11th Governor of Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of Bangladesh. [ 4] Prior to this position, he served as the Finance Secretary to the government and chairman of the state-owned Sonali Bank. [ 4]