And the new look, which mixes Baccarat with ready-to-wear and machine-washable bric-a-brac, offers recession-friendly shopping opportunities.
Sri Lankan troops now sell religious bric-a-brac, run restaurants, collect refuse and build cricket stadiums.
What makes BRAC unique is its combination of business methods with a particular view of poverty.
Nearby is a pile of concrete samples littering the floor beside the Mickey Mouse dolls and other bric-a-brac.
But Eli's selling more kind of random bric-a-brac, like corncobs and candle wax.
This is what Kashf, BRAC, and other Pakistani organizations and individuals are doing.
Microfinance encourages the poor to save but, unlike the Grameen Bank, BRAC also lends a lot to small companies.
Sample a sweet mango in the fruit and vegetable section then admire the quirky antiques and Raj-era bric-a-brac in Chor Bazaar.
Kassalow figured BRAC's 80, 000-strong sales force could help him scale up faster while saving money on training and administrative costs.
Hanwell watched Hanwell Snr struggle with the household bric-a-brac and shabby furniture piled up in the back of the van.
It's through the entrance near 41st Street that I encounter the most bizarre but totally satisfying menagerie of NFL bric-a-brac.
One issue, however, said Babar Kabir, a BRAC senior director, is the low quality of artificial limbs now available in Bangladesh.
Also popular are the islands, from Rab in the north to Hvar, Brac, Korcula, even Vis, although it is more remote.
But in the bric-a-brac of daily life, we turn off our curiosity, often replacing it with the short-term, the obvious, the bone-numbingly mundane.
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After 30 years in Bangladesh, BRAC has more or less perfected its way of doing things and is spreading its wings round the developing world.
Its expansion overseas may, however, present BRAC with a new problem.
Women became the institution's focus because they are bottom of the heap and most in need of help: 70% of the children in BRAC schools are girls.
Instead, the revolutionary impetus was channelled through BRAC into development.
Three years later Kassalow joined forces with BRAC, a global microfinance organization based in Bangladesh that hires women to sell baskets of health-related goods, like Band- Aids and aspirin.
BRAC, a large development organization formerly known as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, is among the groups that have pledged to assist by providing prosthetics, access to financing and alternative skills training.
Kern's main library was housed in the basement of the county courthouse in Bakersfield, in quarters so cramped that some of its materials were buried beneath old lighting fixtures, furniture, and other bric-a-brac.
The US-based Omidyar Network, the brainchild of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and wife Pam, is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunities for people to improve their lives and it has gone into partnership with BRAC in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
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