Business finance for the poor in bangladesh

The Association for Social Advancement is a non-governmental organisation based in Bangladesh which provides microcredit financing.

Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty is an autobiography of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus.
The book describes Yunus' early life, moving into his college years, and into his years as a professor at Chittagong University.
While a professor at Chittagong University, Yunus began to take notice of the extreme poverty of the villagers around him.
In 1976, Yunus incorporated the help of Maimuna Begum to collect data of people in Jobra who were living in poverty.
Most of these impoverished people would take a loan from moneylenders to buy some raw material, using that raw material to create some product, and then selling back the good to the moneylender to repay the loan, earning a very meager profit.
One woman interviewed made no more than two cents per day creating bamboo stools using this system.
The list Begum brought back to Yunus named 42 women who were living on credit of 856 taka.

Fareast Finance and Investment (FFIL) is a major non-bank financial institution in Bangladesh providing leasing and loans.
It is listed on the Dhaka Stock Exchange.

Gender inequality has been improving a lot in Bangladesh, inequalities in areas such as education and employment remain ongoing problems so women have little political freedom.
In 2015, Bangladesh was ranked 139 out of 187 countries on the Human Development Index and 47 out 144 countries surveyed on the Gender Inequality Index in external text>2017.
Many of the inequalities are result of extreme poverty and traditional gender norms centred on a patrilineal and patriarchal kinship system in rural areas.