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• Day Six: Old Friends and Off to the Airport

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  My last day in the country was on the beginning of the Bangladeshi weekend – Friday.  That meant somewhat less traffic, a blessing to be sure.  I spent the three hours, starting at 10am, with my former research assistant, Abdul Mannan Talukdar.  He is the first Area Manager in the history of Grameen who started ...
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• Day Five: Back in the Grameen Headquarters

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  I arrived at the Grameen Complex at 10:30am on Thursday, after having visited my old dentist (who does quality work for a fraction of the price charged back home).  Before I began my first meeting, I noticed the almost frenetic activity around me in each office I entered.  My good friend Mir Akhtar Hossain, who ...
  1 week ago

• Day Four: Transit Back to Dhaka, and a Reunion

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  I awoke on Wednesday in what we in the U.S. would consider a large tin shed.  As the manager had warned, mice had run amok in the rafters at times during the night.  Fortunately, I was able to tune it out after a while.  Soon I was off to the Zianpur bazaar to say my goodbyes to the local Grameen staff, the ...
  1 week ago

• Day Three: Grameen Villages – Back to Kholshi via Narandia

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  Microfinance Client Shaheeda Begum After a delicious Bengali breakfast of vegetables and paratha, I began a field trip that would ultimately bring me to Kholshi, where I did most of the research for my book Small Loans, Big Dreams.  But first I asked to see a Grameen Bank center meeting, to see how the process has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Day Two: Grameen Power and Moving to the Field

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  Muhammad Yunus and Royston Braganza Royston and I spent the first few hours on Monday back in the Grameen Complex in Dhaka.  The most exciting meeting was with two retired Grameen Bank officials — Fazley Rabbi and, briefly, Abser Kamal – both of whom now work with Grameen Shakti (Energy).  Shakti, a sister ...
  2 weeks ago

• Back in Bangladesh

  
  Creating a World Without Poverty — Authority: 115
  Alex Counts is President and CEO of Grameen Foundation, and the author of “Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance are Changing the World” (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Below is Part Two of this journey to assess the state of microfinance with Grameen Foundation partners ...
  2 weeks ago

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