This paper examines the gender component of the Urban Poverty Alleviation Project (UPAP), initiated by the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) in Rawalpindi and Islamabad in 1996. UPAP gives loans to self-constituted groups of women who would be considered uncreditworthy by normal banking...

Muhammad Yunus -from Vanderbilt to Chittagong -- The birth of the Grameen Bank -- Zianpur Bazaar -- Las Papillons -- Amena Begum's dream -- Omiyale Dupart -- The Haldar Para -- The Maxwell Street market -- Krishna Das Bala -- The hip hop shop -- Dry money in a monsoon -- The black on black love...