DHAKA, Bangladesh—A year after Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering tiny loans to the world’s poor, he announced plans to form his own political party. It would be called ...

Aloe vera farms and harvest to meet the high demand for aloe in Bangladesh. Image by Bulbul Ahmed. Delwar Hossain, president of the Kholabaria Medicinal Village Development Cooperative Society Ltd ...

Well before the sun rises in Chapra, a small village in the northwest of Bangladesh, Mohammad Abdur Rouf is on his feet. He travels six miles to a neighboring village, where he joins hundreds of ...

Acclaimed Dutch designer Frank Tjepkema (Tjep), has revealed a partnership with development organisation Solidaridad Network, to help Bangladesh villages modernise their infrastructure by designing ...

He began lending them small amounts from his own pockets, and in 1983 he founded Grameen Bank, or Village Bank in the Bangla language. He spent the next two decades crisscrossing the globe ...