Freedom from want [[electronic resource] ] : the remarkable success story of BRAC, the global grassroots organization that's winning the fight against poverty / / Ian Smillie
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Smillie Ian
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| Titolo: |
Freedom from want [[electronic resource] ] : the remarkable success story of BRAC, the global grassroots organization that's winning the fight against poverty / / Ian Smillie
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| Pubblicazione: | Sterling, Va., : Kumarian Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.5/577095492 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rural development - Bangladesh |
| Non-governmental organizations - Bangladesh | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-267) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Freedom from want |
| ISBN: | 1-56549-315-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782879203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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