ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We are grateful to Professor M. A. Baqui Khalily, Executive Director, Institute of Microfinance(InM) and to the InM for giving us the opportunity to conduct this research. We are also grateful to Dr. M. A. Latif, whose supervision and guidance enabled this report to materialize, and to all the InM staff who helped us different times in conducting the research. Fieldwork and editing are specially indebted to Ms. Rokshana Binta Samad, Ms. Akramunnahar Ashrafi, Md. Musleh Uddin Hasan and Salman Rashid The following individuals need particular thanks for their time and cooperation: Dr. Abul Hossain ,Dr Faridur Rahman Khan, Dr Najmul Hassan, Dr Anju Majid, Dr Rumana Akhtar,Dr Rezaul Huq, Mark Staehle, Edward Abbey, Dr M G Quibria, Zahida Fizza Kabir, Zakir Hossain, Dr. Humaira Islam, Md. Shafiqual Haque Choudhury, Zakir Hossain, Md. Shariful Islam and Shahida Pervin. PKSF, ICDDRB, World Bank, UNDP, United Hospital, Apollo Hospital, Ad-Deen Nursing Home, Bangladesh Nursing Council, PLAN Egypt,Center for Urban Studies (CUS), Sajida Foundation, Shakti Foundation, ASA, BURO, TMSS, Grameen Bank, and other MFIs, gave us both ideas and supporting papers on Urban Microfinance. We are grateful for their comments to all the participants at the Seminar on Urban Microfinance on Jan 12, 2010 and to Dr Sajjad Zohir in particular for his suggestions. The MEASURE program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill is to be thanked for sharing their work on slums and Dr Peter Lance in particular was very helpful. In further work we hope to examine the overlap between our data sets and use it to corroborate our findings. We would also like to particularly thank the many people of the low income communities (‘slums’) whose cooperation and support have both enriched and made possible this research.
Date: January, 2010
Professor Salim Rashid Md. Toriqul Bashar
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