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Grameen bank founder loses final appeal
The founder of the revolutionary micro-capital Grameen Bank has been removed from position of managing director: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has lost his final appeal in Bangladesh’s Supreme Court...
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Grameen Bank cleared of “irregularities”, but Yunus will not be re-instated
The Bangladeshi government has completed their investigation into financial irregularities at microfinance specialist Grameen Bank, but the founder, Muhammad Yunus, will not be brought back: Yunus, 70,...
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Exaggerating your points to make them seem more important than they are
Geoff Chambers does a bit of Google searching to track down a few of the claims made in Stephen Emmot’s critically acclaimed one-man show “Ten Billion”: The reviews were full of superlatives. The...
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Bangladesh needs legal reform and free markets
Sheldon Richman discusses the plight of workers — especially poor women workers — in Bangladesh: According to a report written for the Netherlands ministry of foreign affairs, most Bangladeshis,...
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Impersonal forces acting on passive innocents
We’ve seen plenty of examples of this kind of “reporting”, where the presentation of the case absolves the actors in advance of any motive or action … they’re always implicit victims of circumstances...
View ArticleQotD: Explaining comparative advantage
Actually, it’s dead easy. No math, no arithmetic. It is in fact the soul of common sense. But you have to understand that comparative advantage is the principle of cooperation, as against competition....
View ArticleLanguage and the network effect
Tim Worstall in the Dhaka Tribune: A recent article on the Dhaka Tribune reported that Bangladesh as a country, as an idea, is rather closely linked with the idea of Bangla as a language. Languages...
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QotD: Erasing the Maldives from the atlas
Maldivian media outlets this morning published as fact a satirical Telegraph news blog citing “unconfirmed rumours” that the 14th edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World will omit the...
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QotD: Good intentions do not automatically mean good results
The United Nations Children’s Fund is probably the greatest mass-poisoner in human history — not deliberately, of course, but inadvertently. It encouraged and paid for the drilling of tube wells in...
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