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Last night, BRAC welcomed staff, partners, supporters, and friends for a night of celebration at the Ford Foundation in New York City. BY BRAC USA   Last night, staff, partners, supporters, and friends gathered to celebrate BRAC’s 50th anniversary at the magnificent Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York City. It was a...

BY SCOTT MACMILLAN   This Q&A was originally published in BROOKINGS. It has been reposted below. What would Abed say? I often find myself asking this question these days, having authored a new biography of the late founder of BRAC, “Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty.” The book...

BY DEBORAH KALB   This Q&A was originally published in Deborah Kalb Books. It has been reposted below. Q&A with Scott MacMillan Scott MacMillan is the author of the new book Hope Over Fate: Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty. It focuses on the life of the founder of the antipoverty...

BY JEROME OBERREIT and ASIF SALEH   This blog post was originally published in Center for Global Development. It has been reposted below. Russia’s bombardment of Ukraine created a crisis of displacement on a scale not seen in Europe since World War II. It is heartening to see the exemplary global response, particularly by neighboring...

Several communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, lack access to affordable, clean water. Water entrepreneurs are changing that. BY YASMIN MCGOUGH   BRAC has partnered with the PepsiCo Foundation to provide clean water access to underserved communities in Bangladesh. The partnership is empowering local water entrepreneurs to establish water treatment plants that offer safe and low-cost...