BRAC Approach To Microfinance

• by Fazle Abed
• Sep 2, 2008
• 1 min

In this video Dr Fazle Abed, the founder and chairman of BRAC talks about the BRAC approach to microfinance and their recent expansion to Africa. He elaborates the BRAC’s role in tackling the various aspects of poverty in terms of finance, health, education and family planning. On Africa expansion, he stresses on the modifications required […]

In this video Dr Fazle Abed, the founder and chairman of BRAC talks about the BRAC approach to microfinance and their recent expansion to Africa. He elaborates the BRAC’s role in tackling the various aspects of poverty in terms of finance, health, education and family planning. On Africa expansion, he stresses on the modifications required in the BRAC model to make it adaptive to the needs of Africa. He also stressed that microfinance should be looked not as a means of making money but as a means of alleviating poverty.