{"id":163,"date":"2019-06-21T17:12:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T17:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2019-06-21T17:17:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T17:17:35","slug":"bangladesh-malaysia-2010","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/bangladesh-malaysia-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh &#038; Malaysia 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span class=\"heading\">Yale SOM International Experience<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"bodytext\">In 2010, Professor Mobarak took students to Bangladesh &amp; Malaysia.\u00a0 In Malaysia, students met with officials at Bank Negara, the national bank, to discuss lessons learned from the currency war with George Soros.\u00a0 In addition to meeting with investment firms and government officials, students visited prominent NGOs such as the PT Foundation, an HIV\/AIDS awareness organization founded in 1987 by a group of gay men after the first incidence of AIDS in Malaysia was diagnosed.\u00a0 Students also toured a palm plantation and refinery to get a flavor of sustainable agricultural practices as Malaysia brings its resource sector into the twenty-first century.\u00a0 During the Bangladesh portion of the trip, students met with top officials at Grameen Bank (the Nobel Prize winning microcredit institution founded by Professor Muhammad Yunus) and BRAC (an NGO engaged in micro-finance, health, and empowerment of the ultra-poor).\u00a0 At these institutions, students learned about the foundations, progress, and impact of micro-finance.\u00a0\u00a0 Finally, students visited\u00a0 the evergreen tropical forest of Bhawal National Park, an agri-university, and cultural sites, such as the Liberation monument and a pottery village.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><br class=\"bodytext\" \/><a class=\"bodytext\" href=\"https:\/\/spinup-000d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2019\/06\/MB_Trip_Description.pdf\">Full Trip Description<\/a><br class=\"bodytext\" \/><a class=\"bodytext\" href=\"https:\/\/spinup-000d1a-wp-offload-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/faculty\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2019\/06\/BD_Itinerary.pdf\">Bangladesh Itinerary<\/a><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yale SOM International Experience In 2010, Professor Mobarak took students to Bangladesh &amp; Malaysia.\u00a0 In Malaysia, students met with officials at Bank Negara, the national bank, to discuss lessons learned from the currency war with George Soros.\u00a0 In addition to meeting with investment firms and government officials, students visited prominent NGOs such as the PT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-163","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.som.yale.edu\/mushfiqmobarak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}