(This article is the cover story, December 19, 2011 issue of Forbes.)
Bahawalpur in Pakistan’s Eastern is famous for the magnificent palace which was built during the British Raj, but in the dusty town where most of the population of 400,000 actually live, four dozen peasants have gathered in the concrete building is a clear unpalatial that houses the local branch of the Bank’s rural support program nationwide. The face is dark, the Sun-creased testify to the victims of the process of land in one place more heat on Earth (11 June already in his mid-to 105 degrees); many twist their hair to a head scarf, and all don cotton tunics known as kurta.