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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smillie, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

BRAC (Organization).

Rural development--Bangladesh.

Rural development.

Non-governmental organizations--Bangladesh.

Non-governmental organizations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sterling, Va. : Kumarian Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

BRAC, arguably the world's largest, most diverse and most successfulNGO, is little known outside Bangladesh, where it formed in 1972.Author Ian Smillie predicts, however, that this is bound to change.BRAC's success and the spread of its work in health, education, socialenterprise development and microfinance dwarfs any other private,government or non-profit enterprise in its impact on tens of thousandsof communities in Asia and Africa. Freedom From Want traces BRAC'sevolution from

Contents:

Praise for Freedom From Want; Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Age of Ambition; Chapter 1: Sonar Bangla; Chapter 2: Arms and the Man; Chapter 3: The Plan; Chapter 4: The Problem; Chapter 5: Learning and Unlearning; Chapter 6: Dulling the Edge of Husbandry?; Chapter 7: The Learning Organization; Chapter 8: A Chicken and Egg Problem; Chapter 9: A Simple Solution; Chapter 10: Of Pink Elephants and 9/11; Chapter 11: The Mulberry Bush; Chapter 12: Water and Milk; Chapter 13: Millennium Development Goal 6 (Target 8); Chapter 14: Educating Bangladesh

Chapter 15: Challenging the FrontiersChapter 16: University; Chapter 17: On Being Ready; Chapter 18: The Democratic Deficit; Chapter 19: Afghanistan; Chapter 20: The Source of the Nile; Chapter 21: In Larger Freedom; Glossary; Acronyms; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Also from Kumarian Press;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-56549-315-X

OCLC:

476256205