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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Grameen Bank"”.
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The economics of the Grameen Bank
The Grameen Bank has improved the lives of several million poor people in rural Bangladesh by providing them with credit. Using an innovative group lending program, the bank has been able to recover 97% of its loans. This dissertation is an attempt to understand the intricacies of the Grameen …
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The applicability of the Grameen Bank model in South Africa
… explored the ability of microfinance, using the Grameen Bank model, to increase economic development in the rural areas of South Africa. Grameen Bank is considered to be the mother of conscience driven microfinance. The Bank's approach to poverty alleviation provides the poor with direct access …
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Towards sustainable microfinance: The case of Capitec Bank and Grameen Bank
… of two microfinance institutions (MFIs): Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and Capitec Bank of South Africa. Data from 2004 to 2013 is used in this study employing internationally accepted sustainability criteria, namely, the Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) 2010 Microfinance …
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Microfinance business models : comparing and contrasting Grameen Bank and Compartamos Banco
… two microfinance business models, the non-profit Grameen Bank model and the commercial for-profit Compartamos Banco so as to identify industry best practices. Although there are many differences between these two models, the author concludes that the fundamental distinction between them is in …
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How far can credit travel? : a comparative study of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and the Women's Self-Employment Project in Chicago
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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Microcredit Programs and Evaluation of Women's Success
… three major microcredit programs are operating: Grameen Bank, BRAC and RD-12. The third chapter investigates how these different microcredit programs have been performing relative to each other. Using similar program evaluation technique as in chapter 1, we measure program impact on women's …
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Microcredit and Savings
The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh has pioneered a credit delivery system with a vision to bring banking services to poor villagers. It extends small collateral-free loans, known as microcredit (or microfinance in broader terms), to group of poor borrowers in order that they may engage in income …
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Development and its discontents: NGOs, women and the politics of social mobilization in Bangladesh
… My work focuses on micro-credit NGOs, the Grameen Bank model in particular, and on the strategy pursued by them to "empower poor women." I look at how the extension of credit to "poor women" intersects with existing gender and community relations to produce results that are often in …
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Micro-credit and household productivity : evidence from Bangladesh.
… in rural Bangladesh conducted by the World Bank and the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies to analyze the impact of three micro-credit programs: the Rural Development-12 program of the Bangladesh Rural Development Board, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, and Grameen Bank. …
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Regional Welfare and Female Schooling: Do Microfinance and Female Stipends Matter in Bangladesh?
… The first chapter examines the impact of Grameen Bank and BRAC on regional welfare in Bangladesh. Welfare at the sub-district level is measured in terms of household consumption, and then we examine how the presence of microfinance institutions affect regional welfare. The second chapter …
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The GB-ROSCA hybrid microfinance model : a strategy for small-scale development projects in Nigeria
… small business operators, and the Bangladeshi Grameen Bank (GB) model is the foremost in this regard. This thesis reviews the existing literature on these new generations of credit supply programs pioneered by Bangladeshi GB strategy and highlights the importance of micro-savings in …
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The real effects of liquidity on behavior: evidence from regulation and deregulation of credit markets
… markets. Institutions ranging from central banks to the Grameen Bank operate under the assumptions that credit markets are imperfect, that these imperfections can be ameliorated, and that doing so increases output. There is surprisingly little empirical support for these propositions. …
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Gender and performance of micro and small enterprises in the uMkhanyakude District
… than single women. The study concluded that Grameen-bank type programmes which offer poor rural women low-cost loans for entrepreneurial purposes could benefit uMkhanyakude area.
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¿Cuál es el impacto de la inclusión financiera en la reducción de la pobreza y el crecimiento económico? Cuatro casos de éxito
… en el continente asiático, como por ejemplo el Grameen Bank. Esta institución logró, incluso, el Premio Nobel de la Paz. Luego, esta experiencia exitosa se empezó a replicar en diferentes países permitiendo que la temática escale a niveles de foros e instituciones internacionales, como las …
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Rural Women in Bangladesh : The Legal Status of Women and the Relationship between NGOs and Religious Groups
… against development programmes by the Grameen Bank and other NGOs, misogynous activities including attacks on women and organizers involved with NGOs, and the denial of secular laws resulting in numerous attacks on public premises and holy shrines of Muslim saints. This study thus …
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El mercado de las microfinanzas: desempeño de las instituciones microfinancieras (IMFs) y el acceso de grupos vulnerables
La exitosa experiencia obtenida por el Grameen Bank en la década de los noventa demostró que los microcréditos constituyen una herramienta clave en la lucha contra la pobreza y que las Instituciones Microfinancieras (IMFs) cumplen un papel fundamental al facilitar su acceso a los sectores más …
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Microfinance and women empowerment in Bangladesh: Impact in economic, social and political dimensions.
… women clients of two microfinance institutions, Grameen Bank and BRAC in Bangladesh were selected. 285 questionnaires were completed and returned by the respondents and that constituted the data for the study. Several data analysis methods were deployed to analyse the collected data. It has been …