{"id":8645,"date":"2011-04-05T09:09:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8645"},"modified":"2011-04-05T09:09:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T13:09:01","slug":"grameen-bank-founder-loses-final-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/05\/grameen-bank-founder-loses-final-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Grameen bank founder loses final appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the revolutionary micro-capital <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-south-asia-12968349?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Grameen Bank<\/a> has been removed from position of managing director:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has lost his final appeal in Bangladesh&#8217;s Supreme Court against his sacking from the Grameen micro-finance bank he founded.<\/p>\n<p>The court upheld the decision by the central bank to remove him from office.<\/p>\n<p>The bank said Professor Yunus had been improperly appointed while past retirement age.<\/p>\n<p>But Professor Yunus said the attempt to remove him from the bank had been politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>The Grameen Bank has pioneered micro-lending to the poor by giving small loans to millions of borrowers. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Supreme Court against his sacking from the Grameen micro-finance bank he founded. The court upheld the decision by the central bank to remove him from office. The bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25,9,10],"tags":[706,436,91],"class_list":["post-8645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-economics","category-law","category-liberty","tag-bangladesh","tag-banking","tag-poverty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2fr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8646,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions\/8646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}