Tuesday
March 5
2024

As Nobel Laureate Yunus Skirts Jail in Bangladesh, Fears for His Future

By Catherine Davison

Famed social entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus narrowly avoided imprisonment yesterday, after a court in Bangladesh extended his bail in a case on alleged labor law violations. But as the long-running feud between the Nobel laureate and Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina escalates, his supporters fear the respite may be brief.

Photo courtesy of University of Salford Press Office. 

Source: Devex (link opens in a new window)

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Finance, Social Enterprise
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financial inclusion, microfinance, poverty alleviation