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April 23, 2012, 03:09 PM
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...29301ea2a8.631
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(AFP) – 11 hours ago
DHAKA — Bangladesh Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith has said the government will form a commission to ensure "accountability" of the Grameen social businesses run by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.
The government had fired Yunus from the microlending pioneer Grameen Bank last March, but the 2006 Nobel winner still leads scores of social businesses, aimed at creating jobs and reducing poverty in the country.
Critics including Yunus say the government is planning to take over the empire including its multi-billion-dollar stake in Grameenphone, the country's largest telecom company.
Muhith told reporters Sunday that although most of these social business had Grameen's name, they were not linked with the original microfinance lending institution which provides credit to the poor.
"All of them are tied with Professor Yunus. These 54 enterprises don't have any relation with micro-credit. They don't function in rural areas, they function all over the world," the minister said.
"We're setting up a commission for these enterprises... to establish a regime for this social investment, to bring some accountability and we have to understand how Grameen Bank entered into these (businesses)," he said.
The minister's comments come just a week after Yunus reportedly expressed concern that the government was planning to "grab" Grameen Bank and the other social businesses he now runs.
"The government is taking control of Grameen Bank and its associate enterprises. We have a big challenge ahead of us," he told Grameen Bank staff during a ceremony commemorating 20 years of the lender's union.
"All staff must wage a movement to resist the government's move to take control of the enterprises I've built," he said in comments published in Bengali Amadershomoy daily.
Yunus was fired by Bangladesh's central bank last year for exceeding the mandatory retirement age -- in a move widely seen as engineered by the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The 71-year-old, known as the "banker to the poor", challenged his dismissal, but his appeal was thrown out by the Supreme Court.
Yunus has since said he would stay focused on his social businesses, which include Bangladesh's largest renewal energy company, a top garment manufacturer and providers of anti-mosquito nets, clean water and dairy products.
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This makes my blood boil in rage.
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April 23, 2012, 10:53 PM
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...and after 51 posts, all we've learned is...err, nothing!
The idea is brilliant (not new), albeit unreal. You'll find it difficult enough to lock 1 of the 345 in a ship. The closest we got to it was with the ACC - and our people let all that hard work go down the drain overnight by handing it back to the evil.
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April 28, 2012, 02:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Roey Haque
I'm trilingual, if you must be so concerned about what I know or do not. Matter of fact is firstlane, I found your first remark about me sleeping and writing quite rude, and so I made a wise a$$ reply since your grammar was there to be made fun off. If I touched a nerve, then I'm sorry.
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Was my comment rude or you couldn't just digest the fact that I found your idea of sinking a boat full of crooks a bit too childish to dream about. And that was not a wise a** reply, just a cheap shot at me after you failed to justify your laughable idea with reasonable arguments. So I will prescribe you a dose of your own medicine like other members have done here- grow a strong chin. I am sure you will grow one with age and with some help from the 'fellow Bengies'. And before calling others 'pretentious fools' take a moment to figure out why you find people to be on your back and most of your posts are about defending yourself.
To everyone else- sorry for reviving this distasteful argument. I normally come to 'forget Cricket' section once in a couple of weeks.
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