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Sustainable Empowerment Initiatives among Rural Women through Microcredit Borrowings in Bangladesh

open access: yesSustainability, 2020
Microcredit is an effective instrument that has been recognized to alleviate poverty, especially in developing countries such as Bangladesh. This study seeks to use microcredit as an instrument to bridge the gap between the accessibility of microcredit ...
J. Akhter, Kun Cheng
semanticscholar   +1 more source

THE ROLE OF MICROCREDIT AND MICRO SAVINGS FOR RAISING MICROFINANCE SUSTAINABILITY IN SOMALI

open access: yesBangladesh Journal of Multidisciplinary Scientific Research, 2022
The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of microcredit and micro saving on increasing the sustainability of microfinance in Somalia, using Amal bank as a case study.

semanticscholar   +1 more source

Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019
Despite evidence from multiple randomized evaluations of microcredit, questions about external validity have impeded consensus on the results. I jointly estimate the average effect and the heterogeneity in effects across seven studies using Bayesian ...
R. Meager
semanticscholar   +1 more source

THE LENDING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS IN UKRAINE

open access: yesThree Seas Economic Journal, 2021
The purpose of the paper is to analyze and study the issues of lending to agricultural producers in Ukraine. Methodology. General scientific economic and mathematical methods as analysis, synthesis, abstraction, concretization, and special methods as ...
Tetiana Mulyk, Yaroslavna Mulyk
doaj   +1 more source

Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Observational Study in Brazil

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Development Research, 2021
This paper studies the impact of microcredit in Brazil. We use a propensity score matching on original primary data on business and personal outcomes to compare veteran clients of BNDES—Brazil’s largest government-owned development bank—to a matched ...
Rafael Goldszmidt   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Microcredit, Personal Empowerment and Quality of Life of Women Borrowers

open access: yesJournal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2015
The issue of marginalisation of women in development, particularly in South Asia, has been highlighted in the development literature. Women in this region are found to be generally poor, lack of education, and have a low quality of life, due to various ...
Sana Fayyaz   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Empowering Women through Microcredit in Bangladesh: An Empirical Study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Financial Studies, 2019
The present study was carried out to identify the determinants of microcredit accessibility by rural women households and its impact on rural women empowerment in Bangladesh.
Dalia Debnath   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microcredit as a public health initiative? Exploring mechanisms and pathways to health and wellbeing.

open access: yesSocial Science & Medicine (1967), 2021
The widening health gap between the best and worst-off in the UK requires innovative solutions that act upon the social, economic and environmental causes of ill-health.
F. Ibrahim   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tra locale e globale. Sostenibilità ed empowerment nelle retoriche delle esperienze di microcredito

open access: yesEtnoAntropologia, 2014
Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize 2006) success in Bangladesh, has made microcredit a globally widespread practice. Since the early nineties, microcredit has been adopted by international development organizations as the privileged strategy not only in ...
Giovanna Guerzoni, Francesca Crivellaro
doaj   +7 more sources

Questioning Bangladesh's Microcredit

open access: yesChallenge, 2008
The microcredit (MC) program of Bangladesh has been a well-known success story for generation of self-employment, and poverty alleviation. Variants of this MC model are being implemented in more than 60 different countries of the world. It has become almost a universal antidote for poverty especially from 2006 when Professor Muhammad Yunus- the founder
, Abu N.M. Wahid   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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