Summary of a study
by Urs Heierli with support and contribution from Paul Polak
May 2000
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| The creation of a market for trees and latrines has allowed this family in Bangladesh to provide useful products to poor people; after being themselves below the poverty line, they now run a nursery and a latrine production centre as a flourishing business. They are not an exceptional cases: in Bangladesh, there are 2500 flourishing nurseries and 6000 private latrine producers. |