03203nam 2200601 a 450 991078287920332120230721005010.01-56549-315-X(CKB)1000000000718655(EBL)422098(OCoLC)476256205(SSID)ssj0000360290(PQKBManifestationID)11294047(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000360290(PQKBWorkID)10325073(PQKB)11005643(MiAaPQ)EBC3328890(MiAaPQ)EBC422098(Au-PeEL)EBL3328890(CaPaEBR)ebr10288529(OCoLC)732955735(Au-PeEL)EBL422098(OCoLC)437108254(EXLCZ)99100000000071865520090108d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFreedom from want[electronic resource] the remarkable success story of BRAC, the global grassroots organization that's winning the fight against poverty /Ian SmillieSterling, Va. Kumarian Press20091 online resource (304 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-56549-285-4 1-56549-294-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index.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 BangladeshChapter 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; 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 Rural developmentBangladeshNon-governmental organizationsBangladeshRural developmentNon-governmental organizations362.5/577095492Smillie Ian714002MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782879203321Freedom from want3867826UNINA