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
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1 SWOT Analysis of Grameenphone Ltd. Abstract: Grameenphone widely known as GP, is the leading telecommunications service provider inBangladesh. With more than 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
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Internship Report On Strategies of Human Resource: A Study On Grameenphone Ltd. Submitted To Mr. ShowvonickDatta Lecturer BRAC University Submitted By Salma Sultana Masters of Business Administration (MBA) Id# 10364060 Submission Date: 1 /12 /2013 1 INTERNSHIP RESEARCH REPORT ON ‘Strategies of Human resource: A Study of Grameenphone Limited.’ 2 September , 2013 Mr. ShowvonickDatta Lecturer Brac University Dhaka, Bangladesh Subject: Letter of Transmittal Dear
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Term paper On Microcredit ECO -242 Principles of Macroeconomics Prepared for Janifar Alam Lecturer School of business Prepared By Group 1 Sec: B Semester: Summer-2013 31th July 2013 To Janifar Alam Lecturer School of business University of Information Technology and Science (UITS) Subject: Submitted the Term paper of ECO-242 Dear Madam It
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NGO Promoted Microcredit Programs and Women's Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh Introduction: Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in rural Bangladesh are reaching out to poor women with collateral-free credit programs aimed at both alleviating poverty and increasing women's status. The present study investigated the hypothesis that participation in credit-related activities by NGO credit members leads to greater empowerment of credit members compared to nonmembers. Objectives: To measure the status
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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
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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
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it up. Taking the example of possibly the world’s best known social entrepreneur, Mohammed Yunus, whose hunger to help transform the lives of the bottom rung of the society led him to innovate a completely new banking industry, ‘microfinance’, Grameen Bank. The bank gave small loans to the poorest, without a collateral, purely believing in their credit worthiness. The calculated risk that he courageously took gave him 98% payback returns. His work spread by leaps and bounds worldwide and gained
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Grameen Bank Voluntary Social Systems in action Bangladesh Population: 145 million Capital: Dhaka (11 million) More than half the population is landless After the war, returned to Bangladesh Ph. D. in Economics Vanderbilt Univ Nashville, TN Tried working in the Govt, resigned in two months. Taught at Tenesse State and in Colorado Chairman of Dept of Economics, Chittagong University Dr. Mohammed Yunus Motivation “I felt extremely ashamed of myself
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first I was wondering why an economist and bank owner was given the Nobel Prize for Peace and not Economics. Through the address he made, it became more apparent as to why he an industry like Grameen Bank received such recognition. By making a clear connection between poverty and the prospect of peace, Grameen Bank is fighting poverty and promoting peace. As long as people are in poverty, they suffer from anger, frustration, and hostilities that make it impossible to sustain peace in their society
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