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The Defamation of Muhammad Yunus

The mere thought that the Grameen Bank might be taken over by the government of Bangladesh and that Muhammad Yunus, its Nobel Peace Prize-winning founder, might be forcibly retired, is shocking. But senior people inside the world’s best-known microfinance institution fear that this may happen, perhaps quite soon. Already, senior Grameen staff have had to […]

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Bash the Rich

You might have thought that a bold plan backed by a Nobel Prize winning economist to raise over $75 billion to help the developing world would shake Britons from their knee-jerk cynicism about philanthropy. You would be wrong, sadly. Yesterday London’s Dorchester Hotel hosted the Fortune Forum’s launch of a scheme devised by the economist James Mirrlees to […]