"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 …

agriculture sector and microcredit programmes in Bangladesh and around the world, how they were implemented and to the extent … work. Chapter two assesses the status of malnutrition in Bangladesh, provides a brief history of policies and programmes to … Bangladesh are the subject of chapter five. …

In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing … poverty conditions among its vast rural population. Astonishing growth rates in Bangladesh, particularly during 1990s, created … of the twenty-first century reinforced this trend as the Bangladesh numbers continued to grow impressively; in India, a …