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Village potters

28 June 2005, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Arif Chowdhury Sydney, Australia
28 June 2005, 18:00 PM
Thank you for your wonderful article regarding the village potters and Karra Export-Import Private Company Limited. I should say, as an expatriate, itÊhas enlightened me regarding my motherland; that it is just notÊfull of political violence/killings or muggings or ferry disasters orÊfloods. We have lots of good thing to offer including the Grameen Bank and now the Village Pottery and Tiles, to the West and to the rest of the world. Please pass on a big 'thank you' from the bottom of my heart to your Sathkira correspondent for this positive and wonderful story and my congratulations to Mr. Ruhul Amin and Mr. Rafeli of Karra Export . I would appreciate if someone could let me have its email address, phone or fax numbers.
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I read with great interest the article in today's Daily Star: "Village potters go global: A backwater neighbourhood churns tiles for European markets".

This is what pro-poor growth is all about. As experts all over the world debate on ways to make growth more beneficial for poor-people, the Rafelis, the Ruhul Amins and the Debalal Pals of the world show how this can be done in practice.

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What we see here are two trailblazers, the Italian Rafeli who dreamed about a new product for a new market, and his indefatigable Bangladeshi partner, Ruhul Amin who persevered with the dream. And then we see how the trailblazers linked up with smaller enterprises, in this case the artisans, helping them to enter global markets.

More such stories in the pages of the Daily Star will help create the momentum that will hopefully galvanise policy makers and others in Bangladesh to take the actions necessary to promote competitiveness and broad-based growth. Let us work together to make the "Made in Bangladesh" brand a universally popular one.

Syed Akhtar Mahmood World Bank