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04-10-2012, 01:25 AM
A dozen women in the impoverished village of Someshpur, and more than 24,000 women elsewhere in Bangladesh, have recently become micro-entrepreneurs. They now fish, they now make compost, they now trade firewood - thanks to modest savings they accumulated during two years of work maintaining roads in the vicinity.

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