BRAC: An enabling structure for social and economic development

Seelos, C. and Mair, J. 2006. IESE Study: 34.

IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona.

Abstract

This study introduces and analyzes BRAC, the world's largest non-governmental organization, which pursues the dual objective of poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor. Having started out in 1972 as an almost entirely donor-funded, small-scale relief and rehabilitation project to help the country overcome the devastation and trauma of the Liberation War, BRAC has developed into an exemplary, independent and largely self-financed organization for sustainable development.