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, by JACQUEMONT Stéphanie
The article below was originally written in French on 5 November 2011. It is available on ESSF (article 23467), Les promesses non tenues du microcrédit : nouvelles preuves à charge, but we had not reproduced its English translation.
The CADTM put it back online on 9 August 2024 with a topical (…)
, by ALAM Badrul, PKSP / PPAC
Yesterday 8 June 2023 at 5 pm at its temporary office 27/11/1-A, Topkhana Road, Segunbagicha, Dhaka, an emergency meeting of Pragatisheel Krishak Sangram Parishad (an alliance consisting of 15 farmers, farm laborers and landless organizations inspired by the spirit of independence) was held. (…)
, by BKF, KHAN Zayed Iqbal
Today 20 January 2023, Friday, at 11 am in front of the National Press Club, a rally is held demanding “Tax justice”.
Under the chairmanship of Comrade Badrul Alam, President of Bangladesh Krishok Federation, and under moderation of Zayed Iqbal Khan, General Secretary of Bangladesh Krishok (…)
, by BKF, KHAN Zayed Iqbal
Today, September 23, 2022, Friday, at 4 pm, a rally is held in front of the National Press Club demanding “Tax Justice”.
Chaired by Comrade Badrul Alam, President of Bangladesh Krishok Federation and Conducted by Zayed Iqbal Khan, General Secretary, Bangladesh Krishok Federation, AAM Fayez (…)
, by ALAM Badrul
An emergency meeting of the Progressive Krishak Sangram Parishad was held at the temporary office of the alliance in Dhaka on the budget announced in the parliament on 10 June 2022.
The meeting, chaired by Rehana Begum, Vice-President of Bangladesh Krishok Federation, was addressed by (…)
, by PKSP / PPAC
A press conference on the national budget of the Progressive Krishok Sangram Parishad was held today, May 21, 2022, at 10 am in the conference room of Bangladesh Shishu Kalyan Parishad in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Badrul Alam, President of Bangladesh Krishak Federation and Member Secretary of (…)
, by BKF, HOSSAIN Palash
Rallies and human chain programs were held in front of the National Press Club demanding tax justice.
Today, January 21, 2022, at 3 p.m., a rally and human chain program was held in front of the National Press Club at the initiative of Bangladesh Krishok Federation demanding tax justice. (…)
, by Barkat-e-Khuda
On the occasion of the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence and the 100th birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, it is an opportune time to discuss how the country has transformed itself since its very challenging beginnings—from being a (…)
, by MANUEL Thomas, T. Venkat, TADEPALLI Srividya
A research of the garment sector in India, Bangladesh and Cambodia, commissioned in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza disaster that led to scores of workers’ deaths, has revealed the poor wage and working conditions prevailing in the sector. While finding that the conditions of work are relatively (…)
, by MUHAMMAD Anu
In 2006, a few months after the Nobel Peace Prize for Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank was announced, I was visiting Germany. Quite understandably, I found nonresident Bangladeshis overwhelmed with joy and pride about the prize. Many Germans, including left academics and activists, looked at it (…)
, by BOND Patrick
Bangladesh’s once-legendary banking environment is now fatally polluted. The rot is spreading so fast and far that the entire global microfinance industry is threatened. Controversy ranges far beyond poisonous local politics, the factor most often cited by those despondent about Grameen Bank’s (…)
, by MUHAMMED Anu, PEGU Manoranjan
Anu Muhammad is an eminent Marxist and a renowned academician from Bangladesh. He is currently serving as Professor in the Department of Economics in Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka. He is also the general secretary of National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources Power and (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Not a few eyebrows were raised when the 2006 Nobel Prize for peace went to microcredit messiah Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank (GB) rather than to the more likely candidates like the parties to the agreement between the Indonesian government and rebels in the Aceh region. But the choice (…)
, by BELLO Walden
The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus, regarded as the father of microcredit, comes at a time when microcredit has become something like a religion to many of the powerful, rich and famous. Hillary Clinton regularly speaks about going to Bangladesh, Yunus’s homeland, and being (…)
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