Mumtaz, Soofia - In: The Pakistan development review : PDR 39 (2000) 4: Papers and proceedings, pp. 877-890
This paper examines the gender component of the Urban Poverty Alleviation Project (UPAP), initiated by the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) in Rawalpindi and Islamabad in 1996. UPAP gives loans to self-constituted groups of women who would be considered uncreditworthy by normal banking...