TY - BOOK AU - Rutherford,Stuart TI - The pledge: ASA, peasant politics, and microfinance in the development of Bangladesh SN - 9780199869312 (ebook) : AV - HG178.33.B3 U1 - 332.1 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Microfinance KW - Bangladesh KW - History KW - Peasants KW - Rural poor N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - ASA of Bangladesh tops Forbes Magazine's list of the world's best microfinance banks. This book tells the story of how ASA's determined but practical-minded founder and leader, Shfiqual Haque Choudhury, steered his organisation through the maze of competing ideas about how best to develop poor countries UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195380651.001.0001 ER -