{"id":64815,"date":"2024-06-10T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/jun\/10\/microfinance-pioneer-bangladeshis-muhammad-yunus"},"modified":"2024-06-10T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T04:00:33","slug":"under-threat-of-jail-microfinance-pioneer-vows-to-keep-lending-to-poorest-bangladeshis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64815","title":{"rendered":"Under threat of jail, microfinance pioneer vows to keep lending to poorest Bangladeshis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Yunus tells the Guardian charges against him are politically motivated, and expresses concern about personal attacks from politicians<\/p>\n<p>The Nobel peace laureate and microfinance pioneer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/muhammad-yunus\">Muhammad Yunus<\/a> has said that years of fighting what he calls \u201cdirty\u201d politically motivated attacks on his work to alleviate poverty in Bangladesh have made life \u201ctotally miserable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Yunus told the Guardian he had come under 20 years of pressure from the Bangladeshi government for his work, which is credited with improving the lives of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2013\/may\/24\/muhammad-yunus-business-solve-problems\">millions<\/a> of poor people, particularly women.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/jun\/10\/microfinance-pioneer-bangladeshis-muhammad-yunus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Yunus tells the Guardian charges against him are politically motivated, and expresses concern about personal attacks from politiciansThe Nobel peace laureate and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus has said that years of fighting what he calls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,59,3119,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-global-development","category-muhammad-yunus","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64816,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64815\/revisions\/64816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}