Microfinance institutions, often criticised for inadequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty, have begun … to introduce innovative programs designed to tackle both the concerns. One such program in Bangladesh is the Programmed … assesses the effectiveness of PRIME and regular microfinance programs in reducing seasonal hardship. Findings of this article …

find out whether microcredit has the power to alleviate the poverty in Bangladesh, a country with more than 40% of her … of Bangladesh. The sample of the study consisted of 300 microcredit women members of famous Non-government Organizations … (NGOs) and Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) including Grameen Bank, BRAC, ASA, TMSS and others, who had been borrowing from …

The most-noted studies on the impact of microcredit on households are based on a survey fielded in Bangladesh in the …

This study by Md. Mahmudul Alam and Professor Rafiqul Islam Molla on microfinance comes at the right time when the … microfinance movement has come under attack from various quarters. There are exaggerated claims and counter-claims about … microfinance's impact on poverty alleviation – one side claims to send poverty to the museum, the other claims that it causes and …

promoting and serving survival and subsistence level economic activities, particularly for poor female clients. In Bangladesh …

"The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence," by David Roodman and Jonathan Morduch … Pitt and Khandker (1998; henceforth PK) article "The Impact of Group-Based Credit on Poor Households in Bangladesh: Does …

This paper addresses whether microcredit participants in Bangladesh are trapped in poverty and debt, as many critics …