Grameen Bank goes to USA

Mohammad Yunus has set up Grameen America, based at Queens, New York.

The Grameen office, where the door is always open in the Bangladeshi tradition, is a modest room down a flight of stairs under a doctor's office. Every day, Newaz walks along Jackson Avenue, going into one storefront after another, asking shop owners if they know groups of women who might want to borrow money.

Yunus has already started his operation in Mumbai, India.