Freedom from want : the remarkable success story of BRAC, the global grassroots organization that's winning the fight against poverty / Ian Smillie.
Material type: TextPublisher: Sterling, Va. : Kumarian Press, 2009Description: xiii, 285 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:- text
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- volume
- 1565492943
- 9781565492943
- 1565492854
- 9781565492851
- Freedom from want : The remarkable success story of BRAC, the global grassroots organisation that's winning the fight against poverty
- 362.5577095492 22
- HN690.6.Z9 C66453 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-267) and index.
Introduction: The age of ambition -- Sonar Bangla -- Arms and the man -- The plan -- The problem -- Learning and unlearning -- Dulling the edge of husbandry? -- The learning organization -- A chicken and egg problem -- A simple solution -- Of pink elephants and 9/11 -- The mulberry bush -- Water and milk -- Millennium Development Goal 6 (Target 8) -- Educating Bangladesh -- Challenging the frontiers -- University -- On being ready -- The democratic deficit -- Afghanistan -- The source of the Nile -- In larger freedom.
This title traces BRAC's evolution from a small relief operation indistinguishable from hundreds of others, into what is undoubtedly the largest and most variegated social experiment in the developing world.
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