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Bangladeshi woman builds shoe business from IFAD loan

11/09/2018

Shibli Begum, a woman from the town of Bhairab in Bangladesh, has turned a loan of $3,580 into a footwear factory employing 50 local people, most of whom are women. Ms Begum’s initial capital came from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), which runs a project called PACE (Promoting Agricultural Commercialization and...

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