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The Scaling-up of Microfinance in Bangladesh

Author : Hassan Zaman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scaling-up of Microfinance in Bangladesh written by Hassan Zaman and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The microfinance industry in Bangladesh currently provides access to credit to around 13 million poor households. Zaman describes the factors that led to the scaling-up of micro-credit in Bangladesh, the impact this has had on the poor, future challenges in Bangladesh, and possible lessons for other countries. The consensus in the literature is that micro-credit plays a significant role in reducing household vulnerability to a number of risks and that it contributes to improving social indicators. The author argues that strategic donor investments in a handful of well-managed institutions that offer a simple, easily replicable financial product could lead to large gains in access to finance for the poor. However, this approach could sacrifice other objectives of financial sector development, such as product and institutional diversity, which could be promoted after the initial expansion has taken place. Governments can also have a crucial role in promoting access to microfinance by ensuring macroeconomic stability, enforcing a simple regulatory structure, and developing communications networks that reduce transaction costs. Another lesson is that while visionary leadership cannot simply be franchised, the internal management systems that led to the scaling-up can be replicated in other settings"--Abstract.

The Scaling-Up of Microfinance in Bangladesh

Author : Hassan Zaman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Scaling-Up of Microfinance in Bangladesh written by Hassan Zaman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The microfinance industry in Bangladesh currently provides access to credit to around 13 million poor households. Zaman describes the factors that led to the scaling-up of micro-credit in Bangladesh, the impact this has had on the poor, future challenges in Bangladesh, and possible lessons for other countries. The consensus in the literature is that micro-credit plays a significant role in reducing household vulnerability to a number of risks and that it contributes to improving social indicators. The author argues that strategic donor investments in a handful of well-managed institutions that offer a simple, easily replicable financial product could lead to large gains in access to finance for the poor. However, this approach could sacrifice other objectives of financial sector development, such as product and institutional diversity, which could be promoted after the initial expansion has taken place. Governments can also have a crucial role in promoting access to microfinance by ensuring macroeconomic stability, enforcing a simple regulatory structure, and developing communications networks that reduce transaction costs. Another lesson is that while visionary leadership cannot simply be franchised, the internal management systems that led to the scaling-up can be replicated in other settings.This paper - a product of the Finance and Private Sector Development Unit, South Asia Region - is part of a larger effort in the region to understand how successful anti-poverty interventions can be scaled-up.

Microfinance Impact and the MDGs

Author : Martin Greeley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microfinance Impact and the MDGs written by Martin Greeley and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Linking Up and Reaching Out in Bangladesh

Author : Henry K. Bagazonzya
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821381768
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Book Synopsis Linking Up and Reaching Out in Bangladesh by : Henry K. Bagazonzya

Download or read book Linking Up and Reaching Out in Bangladesh written by Henry K. Bagazonzya and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The microfinance sector in Bangladesh has matured rapidly in the past 30 years and now boasts the largest number of clients in the entire world. Despite these successes, the day-to-day operations of most microcredit institutions in Bangladesh are done manually. The introduction of a centralized information and communications technology (ICT) platform in the microfinance sector will provide further cost savings by streamlining data so that errors, omissions, and duplications (client overlap) are eliminated. Moreover, the introduction of a centralized ICT platform will help to ensure transparency through the standardization of information exchange and accounting mechanisms, increase outreach to rural areas, and integrate the largely informal microfinance sector with the formal financial system. 'Linking Up and Reaching Out in Bangladesh' shows how the establishment of a centralized microfinance platform would revolutionize the country s microfinance sector. This volume will be a useful guide for practitioners, policy makers, and microfinance institutions around the world.

Scaling-up microfinance for India's rural poor

Author :
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scaling-up microfinance for India's rural poor written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Microfinance and Poverty

Author : Shahidur R. Khandker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Microfinance and Poverty written by Shahidur R. Khandker and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Scalling-up of Microfinance in Bangladesh

Author : Hassan Zaman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book The Scalling-up of Microfinance in Bangladesh written by Hassan Zaman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scaling-up Microfinance for India's Rural Poor

Author : Priya Basu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Scaling-up Microfinance for India's Rural Poor written by Priya Basu and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paper recommends that, if SHG Bank Linkage is to be scaled-up to offer mass access to finance for the rural poor, then more attention will need to be paid toward the promotion of high quality SHGs that are sustainable, clear targeting of clients, and ensuring that banks linked to SHGs price loans at cost-covering levels. At the same time, the paper argues that, in an economy as vast and varied as India's, there is scope for diverse microfinance approaches to coexist. Private sector microfinanciers need to acquire greater professionalism, and the government can help by creating a flexible architecture for microfinance innovations, including through a more enabling policy, legal, and regulatory framework. Finally, the paper argues that, while microfinance can, at minimum, serve as a quick way to deliver finance to reform these institutions with an eye to improving access for the poor."

The Aid Lab

Author : Naomi Hossain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191088315
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Aid Lab written by Naomi Hossain and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an unpromising start as 'the basket-case' to present day plaudits for its human development achievements, Bangladesh plays an ideological role in the contemporary world order, offering proof that the neo-liberal development model works under the most testing conditions. How were such rapid gains possible in a context of chronically weak governance? The Aid Lab subjects this so-called 'Bangladesh paradox' to close scrutiny, evaluating public policies and their outcomes for poverty and development since Bangladesh's independence in 1971. Countering received wisdom that its gains owe to an early shift to market-oriented economic reform, it argues that a binding political settlement, a social contract to protect against the crises of subsistence and survival, united the elite, the masses, and their aid donors in the wake of the devastating famine of 1974. This laid resilient foundations for human development, fostering a focus on the poorest and most precarious, and in particular on the concerns of women. In chapters examining the environmental, political and socioeconomic crisis of the 1970s, the book shows how the lessons of the famine led to a robustly pro-poor growth and social policy agenda, empowering the Bangladeshi state and its non-governmental organizations to protect and enable its population to thrive in its engagements in the global economy. Now a middle-income country, Bangladesh's role as the world's laboratory for aided development has generated lessons well beyond its borders, and Bangladesh continues to carve a pioneering pathway through the risks of global economic integration and climate change.

Voices to Choices

Author : Jennifer L. Solotaroff
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464813744
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Voices to Choices written by Jennifer L. Solotaroff and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have experienced significant changes in various spheres of their lives during the last decades as Bangladesh made economic progress. Yet women’s economic engagement and empowerment are subdued, as they cannot make sufficient choices for themselves. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the economic developments in gender equality in Bangladesh. Through examining women’s participation in the labour force, ownership and control of household assets, use and control of financial assets, and opportunities for entrepreneurship, the authors have made concrete recommendations to overcome challenges that lie ahead for women’s economic empowerment. This book is an important contribution to the knowledge on interventions required by the policy makers and broader stakeholders towards narrowing gender gaps. --Fahmida Khatun, PhD, Executive Director, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh The women’s story is central to Bangladesh’s economic and social transformation. There is an urgent need to deepen researched understanding of the multidimensional pathways of women’s economic empowerment and extent of real progress made. Voices to Choices is an important contribution to this story. Surely, the journey of women’s economic empowerment remains a long and challenging one. Realizing the full benefits of new opportunities is often hampered by both new and entrenched insecurities. The task is as much one of empowering women’s agency as of dismantling barriers. The responsibility is as much women’s as society’s. --Hossain Zillur Rahman, PhD, Executive Chairman, Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) This book provides critical insights and is timely, as it outlines how girls and women in Bangladesh have gained more opportunities in labor force participation, control over household and financial assets, as well as greater prospects for entrepreneurship. The findings will greatly contribute to future policy and planning for government and key stakeholders working to advance women’s economic empowerment in the country. --Sabina Faiz Rashid, PhD, Dean and Professor, BRAC James P. Grant School of Public Health BRAC University

The Theory and Practice of Microcredit

Author : Wahiduddin Mahmud
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315413159
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Microcredit written by Wahiduddin Mahmud and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable speed at which microcredit has expanded around the world in the last three decades has piqued the curiosity of practitioners and theorists alike. By developing innovative ways of making credit available to the poor, the idea of microcredit has challenged many traditional assumptions about both poverty reduction strategies and financial markets. While this has encouraged new theorising about how microcredit works, the practice of microcredit has itself evolved, often in unpredictable ways, outpacing the development of theory. The Theory and Practice of Microcredit aims to remedy this imbalance, arguing that a proper understanding of the evolution of practice is essential both for developing theories that are relevant for the real world and for adopting policies that can better realize the full potential of microcredit. By drawing upon their first-hand knowledge of the nature of this evolution in Bangladesh, the birthplace of microcredit, the authors have pushed the frontiers of current knowledge through a rich blend of theoretical and empirical analysis. The book breaks new grounds on a wide range of topics including: the habit-forming nature of credit repayment; the institutional strength and community-based role of microfinance institutions; the relationships between microcredit and informal credit markets; the pattern of long-term participation in microcredit programmes and the variety of loan use; the scaling up of microenterprises beyond subsistence; the "missing middle" in the credit market; and the prospects of linking micro-entrepreneurship with economic development. The book will be of interest to researchers, development practitioners and university students of Development Economics, Rural Development, or Rural Finance, as well as to public intellectuals.

Microleasing - A means for scaling up microfinance?

Author : Steffen Kuhl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638744515
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Microleasing - A means for scaling up microfinance? written by Steffen Kuhl and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-07-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diploma Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1,5, University of Applied Sciences Bremen (School of International Business), language: English, abstract: Leasing as a means for scaling up microfinance is a relatively new and untapped topic. A lot of information about regular leasing in developed countries is available. In addition, some projects on leasing in developing countries have been successfully carried out. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), for example, successfully pioneered in entering the South Korean market and from there India, Pakistan, Turkey, and Russia. Surprisingly, information on leasing at the very micro-level of such economies is rare. In times of commercialization and product diversification among microfinance institutions, insurance and remittance services as well as savings products have gained much attention. Leasing still is underdeveloped in that respect. This paper aims at the analysis of leasing in microfinance institutions and its potential to increase and upgrade the institution itself as well as its customers. As there clearly is a shortage of research and data in that field, the author will present the most recent literature available, including the state of microfinance and leasing in developing countries. Due to the lack of academic and practical information, this paper can not contain a complete analysis of all aspects of microleasing. It rather discusses the main features of microleasing with respect to the success factors of microinsurance, microcredit, microsaving and other products already introduced in microfinance institutions. The author will highlight the major opportunities and threats to the microleasing business that are likely to be faced by its stakeholders. The distinctive features of more advanced countries on the one hand and less developed and informal economies on the other hand will be part of the paper, as well.

Poverty Reduction that Works

Author : Paul Steele
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113655937X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Poverty Reduction that Works written by Paul Steele and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an excellent framework to analyse the experience of a wide variety of successful initiatives across the world and draws attention to critical issues that practitioners need to think about when designing poverty reduction interventions and scaling up. Bill Tod, Regional MDG Adviser, SNV Asia With its wide regional coverage, and frank discussions of issues and problems encountered in designing projects that directly tackle poverty, this will be a very useful reference book for NGOs, INGOs, and also for multilateral institutions. Johanna Boestel, Country Economist, Asian Development Bank, Sri Lanka Resident Mission We are now at the midpoint for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the objective of halving poverty by 2015. Despite commendable efforts and much progress, up to 750 million people are still living in absolute poverty. To lift these people out of poverty, macro-economic policies must be complemented by targeted and local level poverty reduction. This book looks at twenty of the most innovative case studies of poverty reduction and Millennium Development Goal localization from fifteen countries - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Paraguay, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam - covering diverse issues ranging from housing and tourism to socio-economic empowerment of women, health insurance and markets for livestock produce. Many of the cases started as small scale interventions by NGOs, donors or government pilots but now they are being scaled up to form part of national policy or replicated across their respective countries. Yet why do some work while others do not? What are the stumbling blocks and how can they be overcome? And what lessons and principles are there for replicating and scaling up poverty reduction initiatives worldwide? This book tackles these questions and more, and presents a wealth of knowledge, evidence and ideas for all practitioners and researchers working to reduce poverty at the local level while aiming to achieve a global impact. Published with UNDP

Microfinance in Africa

Author : S. Rajagopalan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Microfinance in Africa written by S. Rajagopalan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa is home to some of the poorest and vulnerable populations in the world. The ten poorest countries in the world are in Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest incidence and greatest depth of poverty in the world. Fewer than one in five adults in Africa has access to the services of a formal or semi-formal financial institution. Microfinance in Africa is growing, though. A broad range of diverse institutions offer financial services to the poor and low-income clients in Africa. These include non-governmental organizations, non-banking financial institutions, cooperatives, credit unions, rural banks, Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs), postal financial institutions and an increasing number of commercial banks. Increasingly, technology is being used to expand microfinance outreach mobile phone banking is one such example. This book provides an overview of the microfinance sector in Africa, reviews the performance and impact of microfinance institutions in the region, and outlines some of the opportunities and challenges that African microfinance has on hand.

Economic and Social Development of Bangladesh

Author : Yasuyuki Sawada
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319638386
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Economic and Social Development of Bangladesh written by Yasuyuki Sawada and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses Bangladesh’s economic and social development that may be called a “miracle” since the country has achieved remarkable development progress under several unfavorable situations: weak governance and political instabilities, inequality, risks entailed in rapid urbanization, and exposure to severe disaster risks. The authors examine what led to this successful economic development, and the potential challenges that it presents, aiming to elicit effective policy interventions that can be adapted by other developing countries.

Strategic Alliances to Scale Up Financial Services in Rural Areas

Author : Joselito S. Gallardo
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821366041
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Book Synopsis Strategic Alliances to Scale Up Financial Services in Rural Areas by : Joselito S. Gallardo

Download or read book Strategic Alliances to Scale Up Financial Services in Rural Areas written by Joselito S. Gallardo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Business firms have employed strategic alliances with other firms to effectively manage costs, overcome resource and technology constraints, and enhance competitive position. The principle and practice of strategic alliances can be applied as well for productive and beneficial institutional collaborations in rural financial markets to expand the array of financial products and to scale up access of rural households and micro-businesses to financial services. Strategic alliances comprise a new theme in rural finance. The institutions in the study used strategic alliances to tap new capital resources, manage transaction costs, access banking technology and infrastructure and acquire new skills to provide an expanding array of financial services to wider markets. The authors carefully examine the experiences of selected rural finance institutions and their strategic allies or development partners in Guatemala, the Philippines, Ghana and India to draw out the main findings and share the lessons that may be gainfully applied in other country settings. The study addressed a number of key questions: - What motivated the rural finance institution to structure its alliance or partnership with a bank, commercial or development organization? - How are gains from and costs of alliances and partnerships shared between collaborating institutions? - What are the key elements that make partnerships or alliances successful, and which conditions lead to unproductive ones? - Which financial products and services are best introduced through strategic alliances?"

Creating Good Work

Author : R. Schultz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137313528
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Creating Good Work written by R. Schultz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Good Work is a practical guide book, that recounts the stories of some of the most successful social entrepreneurial programs operating today, with real life examples of and how they overcame both physical and societal barriers to create a lasting impact on the world they encounter.