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Freedom from want : the remarkable success story of BRAC, the global grassroots organization that's winning the fight against poverty / Ian Smillie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sterling, Va. : Kumarian Press, 2009Description: xiii, 285 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1565492943
  • 9781565492943
  • 1565492854
  • 9781565492851
Other title:
  • Freedom from want : The remarkable success story of BRAC, the global grassroots organisation that's winning the fight against poverty
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.5577095492 22
LOC classification:
  • HN690.6.Z9 C66453 2009
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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