The Guardian published an op-ed by Simon Chestertman and Kishore Mahbubani today. Though a run-down of the pragmatic way countries in Asia have dealt with global challenges, the article features Brac and Grameen Bank prominently.
“Asia has emerged as a leader in social entrepreneurship. The successes of social businesses such as Grameen Bank and Brac in Bangladesh have contributed to renewed thinking about how social objectives can be fused with revenue-generating practices.”
Perhaps it’s because I’m a partisan, but it seems to me that both organizations are particularly Bangladeshi enterprises. Being an Asian country did not enter the social and political calculus when either organization was founded.