Given the weak government and the private sector,
one must look to the third sector, variously referred
to as the nongovernmental, nonprofit, or citizen
sector. Here the difference is dramatic. Bangladesh
has one of the most vibrant NGO sectors in the
world, the most highly developed in Asia. This will
be explored in more detail in the case study in
Chapter 5, when different approaches of NGOs to
an important area of poverty action, microfinance
programs, will be explored, as well as in the case
study of BRAC at the end of Chapter 11. If a larger
NGO sector could be developed in Pakistan, perhaps
led by the many educated Pakistanis living in
the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada,
it might play a similar catalyzing role.