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Grand Prize winner: Rice is the staple food of West Bengal, India, and paddy cultivation plays a major role. Men, women and even children take part. (Sujan Sarkar)

The winning photographs in the CGAP 2015 Photo Contest have been revealed. Scroll through the photo essay below to see all 27 spectacular winners.CGAP (The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor) is a global partnership of 34 leading organizations that seek to advance financial inclusion

Third-place winner: A teen girl helps her father in a potters village in Mankundu, West Bengal, India. Five years ago, they started the pottery in their home with a small loan from a co-operative bank. After making the clay pots, they sell them in the local market of Chandanagar. (Pranab Basak)

Second-place winner: Fishermen fish with nets early in the morning in China. (Liming Cao)

Although this Indian woman comes from a remote village 31 miles away to sell ginger and garlic in a city, she is always smiling. She and other street vendors have no permanent place to sell their goods but manage to find places to do so, like under a truck or a bridge. (Subrata Adkhikary)

Workers pass through the dunes in the morning in Vietnam. (L Minh Quc)

Old Ladakhi women work in a mountain field. They grow vegetables to sell them at local market in Ladakh in northern India. (Tatiana Sharapova)

Eleuterio Arturo Leon Mejia, who is more than 90 years old, has been a hairdresser since he was 25. With this small business he continues to contribute to his family. (David Martin Huamani Bedoya)

Honorable Mention:A gravel-crushing workplace in Chittagong, Bangladesh remains full of dust and sand. These workers have come to work here for six months. Afterward they will return home or move on to other work. Faisal Azim

Honorable Mention:Morning, by Do Hieu Liem of Vietnam.

A young mother of a poor village family makes wooden dolls. (Goutam Daw)

Honorable Mention: A young boy and his father work in their shop bending iron in Kolkata, India. Subhasis Sen

A watch repair man makes a living in a small space in Bur Dubai. (Evans Claire Onte)

Honorable Mention:A man at workstoring Betel nut in a local market at Teknaf, Bangladesh. M. Yousuf Tushar

Smallholder farmer Farida Balama harvests maize in Tanzania. Farida farms with her father Beatus to help provide for their family. Her father could not afford to educate her or her siblings of the same age group, but since receiving planting supplies on credit from One Acre Fund, his harvest yields have improved, and they are able to enroll the younger children. (Hailey Tucker)

Honorable Mention:A Chinese herdsman family, with support through loans, bought thousands of sheep. They sell wool, goat's milk, and mutton to make a living. Liming Cao

Honorable Mention:Camel sellers enter a market in Egypt.Mohamed Kamal

Honorable Mention: In a fishing village in Nhatran, Vietnam, these women are repairing fishnets for their husbands for the next journey to the ocean.#Loc Mai

A woman works in the backyard of her house creating idols of the Hindu god Ganesh as the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi nears. She procured a small loan from a local womens empowerment group, which is in turn financed by a bank under a government scheme. (Pranab Basak)

Honorable Mention:An Indian man looks out though a small window in his shop while a woman enters through an adjacent lane. The owner of the shop uses electricity and telephone cables to run his shop and finance himself.Rana Pandey

An Indian man makes a traditional silk sari in the first floor of his small house in Varanasi. (Tatiana Sharapova)

Honorable Mention: Duck breeding and egg harvesting is the main income for this family in Vietnam. Tran Van Tuy

A peasant family in Bursa Aksu village, Turkey, makes tomato paste. (Blent Suberk)

Honorable Mention:Asgar Mia works in a small re-rolling industry. Small industries are rapidly growing in Bangladesh and facilitating many job opportunities for unemployed people. Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

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