Fighting Poverty with Microcredit: Experience in Bangladesh

by Shahidur R. Khandker

With increasing assistance from the World Bank and other donors, microfinance is emerging as an instrument for reducing poverty and improving the poor's access to financial services in low-income countries. Providing the poor with access to financial services is one of many ways to help increase their incomes and productivity. In many countries, however, traditional financial institutions have failed to provide this service. Microcredit and cooperative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195211219
• ISBN13: 9780195211214
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: World Bank Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"