The Association for Social Advancement (ASA) of Bangladesh recently
topped Forbes magazine's first-ever list of the world's best
microfinance banks. This is an extraordinary achievement for an
organization that started life as a revolutionary movement aiming
to bring a peasant-led government to the newly created and
desperately poor South Asian nation of Bangladesh. This book tells
the story of how ASA's determined but practical-minded founder and
leader, Shafiqual Haque Choudhury, steered his organization through
the maze of competing ideas about how best to develop poor
countries. The book sets Choudhury's accomplishments in the context
of Bangladesh's chaotic but inspiring postcolonial history and is
rich in its understanding and descriptions of how ordinary village
and slum dwellers deal with the complicated web of politics,
international donations, and development expertise. The author's
long and intimate knowledge of ASA and of Bangladeshi microfinance
makes this one of the best case studies of a development
organization available to the general public.
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