Microcredit and poverty alleviation /
Islam, Tazul.
Aldershot : Ashgate,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-182) and index.
Microcredit and poverty alleviation : pluses and minuses -- Background -- Statement of the problem -- The Grameen Bank -- Women and microcredit : a Bangladesh perspective -- Studies on the Grameen Bank -- Significance of the study -- Roadmap of the study -- The Bangladesh economy and poverty in Bangladesh -- Introduction -- Economic and financial structures -- Rural development -- Poverty in Bangladesh --Comparing Bangladesh with South and East Asia - Women and poverty -- Summary and conclusions -- The rural financial structure and the Grameen Bank -- Introduction -- The formal financial sector -- The informal financial sector -- The rise of microcredit programmes -- The Grameen Bank -- Summary and conclusions -- Economic impact of Grameen microcredit -- Introduction -- Approach and methodology -- The GB's impact on the level of income of its members -- Growth of income : causal factors -- Productivity -- Substitution of non-institutional loans with institutional loans -- Financial liberalization theory and the GB -- Summary and conclusions -- Poverty alleviation impact of Grameen microcredit -- Introduction -- Alleviation of poverty -- Limitations of microcredit in alleviation fo rural poverty -- Sustainability of poverty alleviation impact -- Can the impact on the extremem poor be enhanced? -- Realistic policy options -- Grameen phase II -- Background of GB phase II -- What are the charges? -- Why now not before? -- Summary and conclusions.
Grameen Bank.
Microfinance.
Women
Poverty.