The three large South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), which are the focus of this report, have drawn …

of the twenty-first century reinforced this trend as the Bangladesh numbers continued to grow impressively; in India, a …In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing … poverty conditions among its vast rural population. Astonishing growth rates in Bangladesh, particularly during 1990s, created …