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Put the micro back in microfinance
Late last week Muhammad Yunus stepped down as managing director of Grameen Bank, 28 years after its founding. His departure ended a nearly six-month saga that began when the Bangladeshi government took advantage of a Norwegian investigation into the Bank’s wrongdoing, to launch a political offensive against Yunus. Setting aside Yunus’ protracted legal battle [...]
In the nearly 10 years since September 11, progressive writers of color have written a great deal about Islamophobia and the U.S. wars against majority Muslim countries. A lot of this commentary has centered on white mainstream politics and the U.S. government’s flawed response to 9/11 encompassing the occupation of Afghanistan, Iraq and increasingly Pakistan. [...]
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