No Free Lunch. / Ben Barber.
by Barber, Ben; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 69Global Issues. Publisher: World & I, 2002ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Economic development projects -- Developing countries | Education -- Bangladesh | Microloans | Non-governmental organizations | Bangladesh -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Henry Kissinger once described Bangladesh as a 'basket case': a country so hopelessly poor, crowded, and disorganized that it could never feed and educate its people. Ten years ago [1992], a Bangladeshi journalist in Dhaka, the nation's capital, told me of a project that offered hope of proving Kissinger wrong: the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)." (WORLD & I) The author discusses a successful development program which has helped to create jobs and educate over a million people in Bangladesh.
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Originally Published: No Free Lunch, May 2002; pp. 166-175.
"Henry Kissinger once described Bangladesh as a 'basket case': a country so hopelessly poor, crowded, and disorganized that it could never feed and educate its people. Ten years ago [1992], a Bangladeshi journalist in Dhaka, the nation's capital, told me of a project that offered hope of proving Kissinger wrong: the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC)." (WORLD & I) The author discusses a successful development program which has helped to create jobs and educate over a million people in Bangladesh.
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