I.E. From just December last year :

http://www.eoi.es/blogs/amyblyth/dp-the-grameen-and-brac-exp...

For balance, here's the response straight from the horse's mouth before that story was written :

http://www.brac.net/node/861

Very convenient when borrowers are unaware of those choices all too often as happened in Sri Lanka too after the tsunami.

And a guardian piece from 2008 :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/20/internationala...

Ah, but these are "Western media" outlets with a clearly biased view spewed from behind the computer. I was born there, but let me return to the modest shack my granddad built so I'll have better standing, shoulder-to-shoulder, with you.

Your organization is the NGO equivalent of the U.N. with greater far-reaching tentacles in every aspect of the poorest communities you influence. The garment factories you hold in such high esteem are exploitive in the extreme and the level of self-delusion you exhibit would have been funny if the consequences weren't so tragic.

Edit: Reply link not showing up yet. Meanwhile, since microcredit is the bread and butter, so to speak, of the BRAC scheme :

https://www.google.com/search?q=consequences+of+microcredit

https://www.google.com/search?q=effects+of+microcredit

https://www.google.com/search?q=repercussions+of+microcredit

I didn't find any such thing from your links after a quick glance.