Author: Shahidur R. Khandker
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: sustainability, performance, bank, grameen
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 1995
ISBN-10: 0821334638
ISBN-13: 9780821334638

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 306. Describes ways in which the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which has attracted worldwide attention by providing small loans to the rural poor and recording high repayment rates, can achieve sustainability, expansion, and replicability. The Grameen Bank has more than 2 million members, of which 94 percent are women, spread across 35,000 villages

Author: Michael Kowalik
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: bank, grameen, model, poor, creditworthiness
Number of Pages: 47
Published: 2010-10
ISBN-10: 1437934315
ISBN-13: 9781437934311

Analyzes the role of expected income in entrepreneurial borrowing. Poorer individuals are safer borrowers because they place more value on the relationship with the bank. The authors study the dynamics of a monopolistic bank granting loans and taking deposits from overlapping generations of entrepreneurs with different levels of expected income. Matching the evidence of the Grameen Bank, they show that a bank will focus on individuals with lower expected income, and will not disburse dividends until it reaches all the potential borrowers. The authors find support for their results using data f

Author: Mahabub Hossain
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Keywords: bank, bangladesh, grameen, poverty, alleviation, rural, credit
Number of Pages: 94
Published: 1988
ISBN-10: 0896290670
ISBN-13: 9780896290679

Author: Shahidur R. Khandker
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: methods, practices, quantitative, evaluation, impact, handbook
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2010
ISBN-10: 0821380281
ISBN-13: 9780821380284

Public programs are designed to reach certain goals and beneficiaries. Methods to understand whether such programs actually work, as well as the level and nature of impacts on intended beneficiaries, are main themes of this book. Has the Grameen Bank, for example, succeeded in lowering consumption poverty among the rural poor in Bangladesh? Can conditional cash transfer programs in Mexico and Latin America improve health and schooling outcomes for poor women and children? Does a new road actually raise welfare in a remote area in Tanzania, or is it a "highway to nowhere?"This book reviews quan

Author: Maurice Kottelat
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: reference, fish, special, asia, biodiversity, freshwater
Number of Pages: 78
Published: 1996-09-01
ISBN-10: 0821338080
ISBN-13: 9780821338087

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 337. Draws on household survey data from 87 rural villages in Bangladesh to examine the contribution that government family planning programs, as well as other health care interventions, have made toward the recent reduction in fertility by increasing contraceptive use and reducing infant mortality. The paper suggests that the programs have been effective and finds that targeted credit program placement, such as the Grameen Bank and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), contributed to the effort as well.

Author: Deepa Narayan-Parker
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: lands
Number of Pages: 530
Published: 2002
ISBN-10: 0821350498
ISBN-13: 9780821350492

"'From Many Lands' gives us an opportunity to meet the invisible people, see their invisible world, and hear their voices as they talk among themselves and talk to us. What this will mean to us, that is up to us to decide. Muhammad Yunus Founder and Managing Director; Grameen Bank Voices of the Poor is a multicountry research initiative to understand poverty from the standpoint of the poor. The Voices of the Poor project was undertaken to inform the World Bank's activities and the World Development Report 2000/2001. There are three books from this project: Can Anyone Hear Us? This volume gathe