...Grameen Bank and Microcredit Name Course Course Instructor Institutional Affiliation Date Introduction It is often contended that the monetary sector in low-income nations has failed to serve the impoverished. Considering the formal sector, financial institutions as well as banks generally necessitate significant collateral, have bureaucratic and lengthy application process and have a preference for high loan and high-income clients. For the informal sector, usurers often charge extremely high-interest rates, often permit sexist or racist attitudes to direct their lending decisions and tend to undervalue collateral (Kuhinur & Rokonuzzaman, 2010). Accordingly, the failure of informal and formal financial sectors to offer affordable credit to the deprived is usually perceived as a factor among others that reinforces the social, demographic and economic structures that eventually cause poverty. Consequently, "micro-credit" was developed to address this failure and decades has seen a significant growth in this sector. Microfinance over the years has received several donor endorsement to be the most viable anti-poverty initiative. This is because it targets and reaches the impoverished, especially women, and also small entrepreneurs and producers who more often than not have a limited formal access to traditional banking systems. Micro-credit is, in essence, the dispersion of diminutive collateral-free loans to equally liable groups so as to foster income creation...
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...------------------------------------------------- Grameen Intel: The Experience of the World’s First IT Social Business ------------------------------------------------- Fahim Kader (132-0947-660) January 7, 2014 Abstract “Of all the countries around the world where we can invest, why should we keeping funds running to Bangladesh?” narrates Kazi I. Huque, CEO of Grameen Intel Social Business Ltd.). He talks about how he has had to convince people over at Intel Corporation, over the years, how despite all the well publicized negativities surrounding the political and (subsequently) business situations in Bangladesh, it would be great investment for Intel to finance the operations of Grameen Intel in Dhaka. Huque, a long term employee of Intel, recalls how during the incorporation of Grameen Intel, he was caught in the middle of contrasting demands and ideas from the rest of the board members that included his own bosses. When he took on the responsibility of spearheading the venture, he knew it would be challenging. The canvas was empty and required lots of thorough planning and strategizing to be crafted into a successful project. “I met with Craig Barrett (former Chairman of Intel Corporation) in his office, and I started complaining.” says Huque. “I said, ‘You’re all making different demands… you need to be on the same page.” Barrett simply replied, “Kazi, we got you onboard to deal with this. It is your job to sort it all out, so don’t ask me for solutions...
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...Grameen Bank: Taking Capitalism to the Poor Evaristus Mainsah* MBA ’04 Schuyler R. Heuer MBA ’04 Aprajita Kalra MBA/MIA ’04 Columbia Business School Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs Qiulin Zhang MPA ’04 Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs This paper was written as part of the course Emerging Financial Markets taught by David O. Beim, professor of professional practice, at Columbia Business School in fall 2003. The authors are grateful for his invaluable feedback. © 2004 by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. All rights reserved. CHAZEN WEB JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SPRING 2004 www.gsb.columbia.edu/chazenjournal * Corresponding author (EMainsah04@gsb.columbia.edu). Executive Summary In the early 1970s, Professor Muhammad Yunus envisioned a means of alleviating poverty by circumventing the major impediment to lending to the poorest in society—the need for collateral. He tested this instinct in an experiment in 1976, when he lent about $27 to 42 women in an ordinary Bangladeshi village. Just 30 years later, Grameen Bank has more than 3.2 million borrowers (95 percent of whom are women), 1,178 branches, services in 41,000 villages and assets of more than $3 billion. This paper explores Grameen Bank’s origins, structure, culture, performance and efforts to expand and broaden the microfinance agenda. The authors evaluate Grameen’s success in implementing Yunus’s vision...
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...telecommunications service provider in Norway with mobile phone operations in 12 other countries, and Grameen Telecom Corporation (34.2% ), a non-profit sister concern of the internationally acclaimed micro-credit pioneer Grameen Bank. The other 10% shares belong to general retail and institutional investors. The technological know-how and managerial expertise of Telenor has been instrumental in setting up such an international standard mobile phone operation in Bangladesh. Being one of the pioneers in developing the GSM service in Europe, Telenor has also helped to transfer this knowledge to the local employees over the years The international shareholder brings technological and business management expertise while the local shareholder provides a presence throughout Bangladesh and a deep understanding of its economy. Both are dedicated to Bangladesh and its struggle for economic progress and have a deep commitment to Grameenphone and its mission to provide affordable telephony to the entire population of Bangladesh. Telenor is emerging as one of the fastest growing providers of mobile communications services worldwide with ownership interests in 12 mobile operators across Europe and Asia. Telenor is organised into three business areas; Mobile operations covering 12 countries, and Fixed-line and Broadcast services covering the Nordic region. Telenor holds 55.8 per cent of Grameenphone, with Grameen Telecom Corporation owning the remaining 34.2 per cent. The rest of the shares belong to...
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...[pic] Independent University, Bangladesh [pic] Compensation system in Grameen Phone Limited HRM370 Compensation System in Gremeen Phone Limited Prepared For: Mr. Monzoor Murshed Course Instructor, HRM 370 Prepared By |Name |ID | |Md. Mahbubul Hoque Bhuiyan |0920713 | |Towhidul Islam Khan |0920034 | |Md. Shamim Rahman |0920108 | | | | | | | | | | Date of submission: 3rd April 2012 Letter of Transmittal 3rd April 2012 ...
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...Presented to – Adeyl khan, course instructor: MIS 205, Sec: 3 Group Assignment-1 Due date: 14.6.2012 2012 Report on an organization Grameenphone Sadi mohammad- 1110725030 Abu Shoaib khan- 1020722030 Grameenphone – An Overview Since 1997 the widely acclaimed “Village Phone Program” of Grameenphone – a joint venture telecom company, set up by Grameen Bank, with foreign (Norwegian) capital3 – has provided telephones to 39,000 villages in Bangladesh, bringing access to the telephone networks to some 70 million people. This extraordinary achievement is rightly cited in the development literature as a success, an innovation which managed to bring the Information Society to the remotest and most unlikely places of the country. Most studies of the initiative have focused on the socio-economic benefits that new technology such as cell phones can bring rural communities, giving the impression that the program is philanthropic in intention, presenting Grameenphone as a not-for-profit organization devoted to providing connectivity for the poor. This assumption does not reflect reality. GP is above all a business. The company provides a good example of a multi-stakeholder partnership, as recommended in the Plan of Action of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) held in Geneva in December 2003.4 It highlights the role of the private sector not only as a market player but also as an effective and dynamic stimulator of development. This case-study...
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..._____________________________________________1.0 Executive Summary This research purposes to find out the problems in decreasing sales of Grameen Denone Shokti Doi. Following the social business concept, French based food and beverage company Denon started its operation by making an agreement with Grameen group which is named as Grameen Danon. Grameen Danon launched in 2006 and they officially launched their 1st package of product named Shokti doi as the main concern of Shokti doi is to provide nutrition to the poor children of Bangladesh which can able to fulfill their nutritional requirements. As they started their business they have faced lots of obstacles such as the lack of proper distribution, non-standardized management along with localization problem. Also, the distribution through women raised the fact of cultural barriers. The unplanned product and overstated pricing strategy also become a fact of their market loss. Various key factors like Product, Price, Promotion, Proper segmentation and target market are also play a big role in terms of generation revenue for n organization. Based on our research objectives and other related subjects of the research, we developed few hypotheses for it, which we have tested by our primary and secondary data that we have collected by survey. The data we have collected can be divided into two categories are Primary Data and Secondary Data. Primary data refers to the data collected from the survey that we have conducted among the...
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...October 8, 2015 “Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder and managing director of Grameen Bank, said that if an institution could make financial resources available to the poorest people in Bangladesh, then ‘these millions of small people with their millions of small pursuits can add up to create the biggest development wonder.’" Grameen Foundation Muhammad Yunus: banker, economist, professor, author, founder of the Grameen Bank, founding member of Global Elders, World Food Prize winner (1994), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2006), recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009), and the recipient of 26 honorary doctorate degrees and more than sixty other special awards. There is little to no doubt that the man is accomplished, hailed as the father of microcredit and a pioneer of microfinance. However, his success lies in something seemingly marginal and that much more brilliant, which distinguishes him as an intellectual and a thinker worthy of a place on the thinkers.com top 50 list. The idea of microcredit was first brought to light by Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan (founder of the Pakistan (now Bangladesh) Academy for Rural Development). Yunus, a follower of Dr. Khan’s work, sought to implement the concept as a unique social business model aiming to eradicate poverty, starting with Bangladesh. With banks refusing to provide loans to ‘high-risk’ markets, Yunus felt that the poor were left at a disadvantage, unable to escape the grip of poverty. “To Muhammad Yunus, micro-credit...
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...Grameen Bank The Grameen Bank (Bengali: গ্রামীণ বাংক) is a microfinance organization and community development bank started in Bangladesh that makes small loans (known as microcredit or "grameencredit"[4]) to the impoverished without requiring collateral. The word "Grameen" is derived from the word "gram" and means "rural" or "village" in Bangla language . The system of this bank is based on the idea that the poor have skills that are under-utilized. A group-based credit approach is applied which utilizes the peer-pressure within the group to ensure the borrowers follow through and use caution in conducting their financial affairs with strict discipline, ensuring repayment eventually and allowing the borrowers to develop good credit standing. The bank also accepts deposits, provides other services, and runs several development-oriented businesses including fabric, telephone and energy companies. Another distinctive feature of the bank's credit program is that the overwhelming majority (98%) of its borrowers are women. The origin of Grameen Bank can be traced back to 1976 when Professor Muhammad Yunus, a Fulbright scholar at Vanderbilt University and Professor at University of Chittagong, launched a research project to examine the possibility of designing a credit delivery system to provide banking services targeted to the rural poor. In October 1983, the Grameen Bank Project was transformed into an independent bank by government legislation. The organization and its founder...
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..._____________________________________________1.0 Executive Summary This research purposes to find out the problems in decreasing sales of Grameen Denone Shokti Doi. Following the social business concept, French based food and beverage company Denon started its operation by making an agreement with Grameen group which is named as Grameen Danon. Grameen Danon launched in 2006 and they officially launched their 1st package of product named Shokti doi as the main concern of Shokti doi is to provide nutrition to the poor children of Bangladesh which can able to fulfill their nutritional requirements. As they started their business they have faced lots of obstacles such as the lack of proper distribution, non-standardized management along with localization problem. Also, the distribution through women raised the fact of cultural barriers. The unplanned product and overstated pricing strategy also become a fact of their market loss. Various key factors like Product, Price, Promotion, Proper segmentation and target market are also play a big role in terms of generation revenue for n organization. Based on our research objectives and other related subjects of the research, we developed few hypotheses for it, which we have tested by our primary and secondary data that we have collected by survey. The data we have collected can be divided into two categories are Primary Data and Secondary Data. Primary data refers to the data collected from the survey that we have conducted among the...
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...BUS203 “SWOT and PEST Analysis of Grameenphone Limited” Submitted to: Asheka Mahboob Submitted by: Zerin Tasnim Haq (12304009) Rifat Tasfiha (12303039) Syeda Tamanna Nawar Neha(12204062) Farhana Ahmed- 12104016 Section : 02 Submission date: 11.08.2014 Table of contents: WHAT IS PEST ANALYSIS | 3-4 | ANOVERVIEW OF THE TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY | 4-5 | THE STORY OF GRAMEENPHONE | 6 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-POLITICAL | 7 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-ECONOMICAL | 8 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-SOCIAL | 8-9 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-TECHNOLOGICAL | 9-10 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-LEGAL | 11 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-ETICAL | 11-12 | Swot analysis of grameenphone-strengths | 13-14 | Swot analysis-weakness | 14-15 | Swot analysis-opportunities | 15-16 | Swot analysis-threats | 16-18 | Recommendation | 18-19 | Conclusion | 20 | REFERENCE | 21 | PESTLE analysis, which is sometimes referred as PEST analysis, is a concept in marketing principles. Moreover, this concept is used as a tool by companies to track the environment they’re operating in or are planning to launch a new project/product/service etc. PESTLE is a mnemonic which in its expanded form denotes P for Political, E for Economic, S for Social, T for Technological, L for Legal and E for Environmental. It gives a bird’s eye view of the whole environment from many different angles that one wants to check and keep a track of while contemplating on a certain idea/plan. The framework has undergone certain alterations, as gurus...
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...Grameen bank. Eulee What do you think when there is word ‘Novel Peace Prize’? Love, sacrifice, donation, freedom, human rights and etc. you can easily think about related word. Then what do you know about ‘Novel Peace Prize Laureate?’ Of course you could have heard about ‘Mother Theresa’, ‘Martin Luther King Jr’ ‘Dalai Lama’ or ‘Nelson Mandela’. All of them and their achievements are, needless to say, graceful and gave ‘peace’ to the world. However, do you know who had honored the Novel Peace Prize in 2006? The answer is Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank. He was also a professor of economics at Chittagong University. But, most of guys question ‘Why economist and university professor founded a bank and received novel peace prize?’. So I am standing here for explain about him and Grameen bank. The origin of Grameen bank was started when Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi professor of economy at a college, lend 27 dollars to a group of 42 women who suffered from a loan shark in 1973. From his personal experience, the Grameen project has developed into establishing micro financing institute, for the poor, in 1983 on Bangladeshi; the Grameen Bank. The purpose of their bank is offering banking service to the poor, especially woman. Grameen bank is representative of ‘micro credit’ that offered chance to the poor. The problem that Grameen bank tries to overcome is poverty. Bangladesh is really poor nation that is usually attacked by flood, drought...
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...About Grameen Trust Grameen Trust (GT) came into being in 1989 with the sole objective of turning the Grameen philosophy into reality by working alongside those struggling to remove poverty. Grameen Trust is committed to the cause of poverty alleviation, promoting the Grameen Bank Approach (GBA) and providing financial and technical support to Grameen Bank Replication Projects (GBRPs) worldwide. It also directly implements microcredit programs in areas where there is no sustainable microcredit project for the poorest. Grameen Trust has a lot of Donor Partners, such as Rockefeller Foundation, UNCDF, World Bank, USAID, UNHCR, Citigroup Foundation, Commonwealth Secretariat, Whole Planet Foundation etc. Grameen considers "Credit as a human right". That is the reason why Grameen Trust is doing such a successful job through expanding its global operation of establishing sustainable microcredit programs for poverty alleviation around the world. GT has 141 partners in 38 counties all over the world, in America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Pacific. Vision: Grameen Trust envisions a poverty free world. Mission: To reduce poverty primarily through the promotion of poverty focused microcredit programs around the world following Grameen Bank Approach. Objectives: - To support and promote GB type programs to reduce poverty - To publish materials aimed at disseminating information about Grameen Bank Replication Programs (GBRP) and drawing the attention of all concerned to the deep...
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...There are many people and many ideas aimed towards ending poverty in countries across the world. Two men have come up with, and implemented their ideas in primarily African villages in the past 30 years, and in both cases there have been positive effects. Economist Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute in New York has created an idea called the Millennium Village’s Project. 2006 Nobel Peace prize winner Mohammed Yunus has come up with an idea known as the Grameen Bank. Both men’s ideas have shown positive changes in the communities in which these solutions have been implemented. After researching both of these topics extensively the Grameen Bank solution seems to be the least complex, most sustainable and most rewarding solution. This essay will expand into why the Grameen Bank solution is superior to the Millennium Village’s Project. Jeffery Sachs Millennium Villages Project focuses on a holistic approach to elimination poverty. Some of the things that the Millennium Villages Project focuses on is community health workers, diversified local food production, commercial farming, malaria control, piped water, solar electricity, and connectivity to name a few. These multiple tools are synergistic—while each has been proven to support its main target, each also contributes to progress on several or all of the goals. (Millennium Villages, 2012) Sachs believes that if you focus on these key topics that the quality of life in these countries will improve. The cost of this program is...
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...Prepared By- Prepared For- Mrs Samina Hoque Lecturer BRAC Business School. BRAC University. Dear Madam, Sub: Submission of term paper for completion of course. With due respect, we want to inform you that we completed the term paper on Grameenphone. The term paper focuses on grameenphone’s CSR. It has been prepared for the completion of the course introduction of business. In writing this case, we followed your instructions for term paper writing and present our views and understanding in the easiest way. Thank you. It is pleasure to acknowledge the assistance received form several individuals during the preparation of this term paper. We are greatly indebted to our Miss Samina Hoque for her valuable help by giving the direction. We are appreciating the enthusiastic help of websites and annual report of the company in preparation of the term paper. We are obliged to Al-amin who contributes much to complete the term paper. Executive Summary: Grameenphone is one of the most go-ahead industries currently in Bangladesh. We took the term paper with Grameenphone which stands as a famous name in telecom industry. We proud to work with Grameenphone and this experience will surely help us in our future assignments...
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