...Ritu Menon Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today . By Jeremy Seabrook . London and New York : Zed Books ; Dhaka: Proshika, 2001 . xi , 243 pp. $25.00/£14.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

.... Seabrook visited many of Proshika's project areas in the south, southwest, north, and southeast of Bangladesh, and his observations are interspersed with interviews of many key individuals in Proshika's projects: its founder-inspirer (Dr. Faruque Ahmed project workers, politicians, and, not least...

...: Zed Books; Dhaka: Proshika, 2001. xi, 243 pp. $25.00/£l4.95. The Liberation War Museum in Dhaka is housed in a gracious old building, in a garden full of trees so heavy with fruit and foliage that the exhibits inside hit you between the eyes, with room after room of the history of Bangladesh's freedom...

... Policy Agenda" (chapter 1); "Poverty and Well-Being: Problems for Poverty Reduction in Role of Credit," (chapter 2); "Finance for the Poor or Poorest?" (chapter 3), case studies of three nongovernment organizations (Proshika, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee and the Association for Social...

... clients who have to undertake whatever the foreign donor decides to finance (p. 65). The needs of Bangladesh can become secondary to the need of the NGO to survive. Stiles names two prominent NGOs, Proshika and Gono Shasto Sanghastha (GSS), as examples of NGOs that "cannot survive without British support...

... (Proshika, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee and the Association for Social Advancement), the public sector banks and the Grameen Bank (not technically a nongovernment organization) in chapters 5 through 9- The problems of reaching the poorest are examined in chapters 10 and 11. Chapters 12, 13...