{"id":8250,"date":"2011-03-07T00:33:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T08:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2011-07-25T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T20:20:10","slug":"lamia-karim-interviewed-by-wall-street-journal-reporter-for-her-expertise-on-microfinance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/lamia-karim-interviewed-by-wall-street-journal-reporter-for-her-expertise-on-microfinance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamia Karim Interviewed by Wall Street Journal Reporter for Her Expertise on Microfinance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 8, 2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704758904576187940676522926.html\" target=\"_blank\">Court Upholds Yunus Sacking from Grameen<\/a> \u2014 <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> (A high court in Bangladesh Tuesday upheld a central bank decision last week that Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus must resign as head of the microfinance bank he founded, intensifying a struggle between Mr. Yunus and the government of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. &#8230;&#8221;A lot of this has to do with the personal animosity between Sheikh Hasina and Muhammad Yunus,&#8221; said Lamia Karim, an associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon-Eugene who has written a book on Grameen Bank.) \u2014 Noted in the UO Office of Communications daily eclips<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s Note: Lamia Karim, associate director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, has a new book coming out the end of March.\u00a0 <a title=\"synopsis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/microfinance-and-its-discontents\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh<\/em><\/a> (University of Minnesota Press) is an in-depth feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 8, 2011: Court Upholds Yunus Sacking from Grameen \u2014 Wall Street Journal (A high court in Bangladesh Tuesday upheld a central bank decision last week that Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus must resign as head of the microfinance bank he&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/lamia-karim-interviewed-by-wall-street-journal-reporter-for-her-expertise-on-microfinance\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-csws-staff","category-microfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}