Smearing Prof. Yunus' integrity
The recent news in media on misuse of Norwegian aid by Prof Yunus drew my attention. This is simply vilification of a man whom they honoured with a Nobel Prize very recently. I am not a supporter of microcredit or any NGO activity. Microcredit helps, in certain cases, some people and some time, but not a poor society at large and never. But Prof. Yunus firmly believes that microcredit can be a good way for poverty alleviation in poor countries. I do not doubt his sincerity. I strongly believe that Prof. Yunus is an honest man and trying to do something for poverty alleviation. I disagree with him on the benefit of microcredit and I don't believe that microcredit can make any society well off and poverty free. Only a good government and massive investment aiming poverty alleviation can help a country to uplift from the curse of poverty. Don't the Norwegian and Western world know it? Why this hue and cry now?
All these years we have heard only praise for Prof Yunus from these people. I very much doubt sophisticated Norwegian and Danish journalists' present intention. They are after him for some other reason, I suppose. Has it something to do with Grameen's quarrel with Telenor? Bangladeshi media needs to be very careful in judging Prof. Yunus on ill information and mud slandering from this Norwegian-Danish axis.
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