Who needs credit?: Poverty and finance in Bangladesh

by Geoffrey D. Wood and Iffath Sharif

In recent years Micro-credit, the loan of small sums to people excluded from normal banking processes, has emerged as an important and growing issue in Development Policy. The result of disillusionment with the ability of either government agencies or international aid programmes to change the situation of the poor, Micro-credit has proved very successful. The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh alone lends to two million people. By reviewing the experience...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9840513818
• ISBN13: 9789840513819
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University Press
• Length: 395 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.