Fighting Poverty With Microcredit - Experience in Bangladesh

This text examines the experiences of the Grameen Bank and two other major microcredit programmes in Bangladesh in order to quantify the potential and limitations of microcredit programmes as an instrument for reducing poverty and delivering financial sevices to the poor.

Product details

• Authors: Shahidur Khandker, Shahidur R. Khandker, World Bank Group
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780195211214
• ISBN: 978-0-19-521121-4
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: World Bank Publication
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Microeconomics, Bangladesh, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Public finance, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Microeconomics, Development economics and emerging economies, Public finance and taxation, Credit and credit institutions, Credit & Credit Institutions