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Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder & chairman of BRAC

Stephen Sackur asks Sir Fazle Abed if his organisation, BRAC, has achieved its aim to improve the lives of the world's poorest people through social change and economic self-help.

When it comes to improving the lives of the world's poorest people, what really works? Sir Fazle Abed has spent much of his life trying to answer that question. In the process he has created arguably the world's biggest development organisation, known by its initials BRAC. From its home in Bangladesh, to Afghanistan, to Africa, BRAC has tied development to social change and economic self-help. The ambition is huge but do the achievements match it?

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