"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 …

effectiveness of sectoral interventions, and how the interventions in the agricultural sector and microfinance can be used to … 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 …

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 … a new dimension for microfinance worldwide as microfinance institutions grew to include millions of clients. The start …

employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective … of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how to enhance poverty reduction through increased employment and …

The three large South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), which are the focus of this report, have drawn …

, specifically Bangladesh and Pakistan, achieving compliance with the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) without jeopardizing the future of … breaking including the government of Pakistan and the government of Bangladesh about the current problems encountered in the … and growth potential of the industry in Bangladesh and Pakistan (chapter two); ii) it undertook environmental audits of …