Madrassahs: Their Role in Achieving Equality for Women

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Bangladesh has always been among the most active of least-developed countries (LDCs) in fighting gender inequality. The country's achievements in education and gender equality in education have been remarkable. Nevertheless, some sections of the population have been left behind. One is female students in madrassahs.

Grameen

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Grameen Bank is the only business to receive a Nobel Prize. That was in 2006 when the bank and its founder, Professor Muhammad Yunus, shared the award for Peace. The question is why a bank would get a prize for peace when most other winners have stopped wars. And why should that bank be Bangladeshi? After all, no other Bangladeshi has ever won a Nobel Prize in any area.

Sir Fazle Abed and BRAC

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Fazle Hasan Abed was born into a wealthy family in what is now Habiganj in British India in 1936. He studied at the prestigious Notre Dame College before entering the University of Glasgow in Scotland, when he was eighteen. After taking a degree in the unusual subject of shipbuilding, he changed direction and qualified as an accountant in 1962. He wondered whether he could find a job in shipbuilding in East Pakistan. On his return to his homeland, Abed joined the oil company, Shell, and was promoted time and again until he became the Head of Finance.