key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank …: India's rural poor currently have very little access to finance from formal sources. Microfinance approaches have tried to … microfinance approaches to coexist. Private sector microfinanciers need to acquire greater professionalism, and the government can …

agency role, and the other as a lead innovator in rural microfinance. Also suggested is a substantial revision of the usury …

remarkable; specialized microfinance institutions; and, partnerships between private Banks,, micro-financiers, and service …

such as Bangladesh, where they often have few work alternatives. In this paper, the authors descriptively examine the … formal and informal financial sectors of rural Bangladesh, placing special emphasis on differences between men and women …. Their analysis uses unique data on the credit and transfer behaviors of 1,800 households in rural Bangladesh. The authors …

"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 …

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 …

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 …