The pledge : ASA, peasant politics, and microfinance in the development of Bangladesh

Forbes Magazine ranks ASA of Bangladesh the world's best microfinance bank. But ASA started as a revolutionary movement aiming to place a peasant-led government in power in Bangladesh. This book tells how ASA's determined but practical-minded founder, Shafiqual Haque Choudhury, steered his organization through the maze of competing ideas about how to develop poor countries.