Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (54 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg. World Bank E-Library Archive
Parallel Title:
Zaman, Hassan Assessing the Impact of Micro-credit on Poverty and Vulnerability in Bangladesh
Keywords:
Access To Cred Bank
;
Banks and Banking Reform
;
Borrowers
;
Borrowing
;
Communities & Human Settlements
;
Cred Household Expenditure
;
Debt Markets
;
Economic Theory and Research
;
Finance and Financial Sector Development
;
Financial Intermediation
;
Financial Literacy
;
Health, Nutrition and Population
;
Household Income
;
Housing and Human Habitats
;
Illiteracy
;
Income
;
Income Sources
;
Investing
;
Knowledge
;
Loan
;
Loan Period
;
Loans
;
Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
;
Population Policies
;
Poverty Reduction
;
Risk Reduction
;
Rural Development
;
Rural Poverty Reduction
;
Senior
;
Student
;
Supply
;
Welfare
;
Access To Cred Bank
;
Banks and Banking Reform
;
Borrowers
;
Borrowing
;
Communities & Human Settlements
;
Cred Household Expenditure
;
Debt Markets
;
Economic Theory and Research
;
Finance and Financial Sector Development
;
Financial Intermediation
;
Financial Literacy
;
Health, Nutrition and Population
;
Household Income
;
Housing and Human Habitats
;
Illiteracy
;
Income
;
Income Sources
;
Investing
;
Knowledge
;
Loan
;
Loan Period
;
Loans
;
Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
;
Population Policies
;
Poverty Reduction
;
Risk Reduction
;
Rural Development
;
Rural Poverty Reduction
;
Senior
;
Student
;
Supply
;
Welfare
Abstract:
July 1999 - While micro-credit interventions can play an important role in reducing vulnerability through a number of channels, a significant impact on poverty reduction is achieved under more restrictive conditions. These conditions revolve around whether the borrower has crossed a cumulative loan threshold and on how poor the household is to start with. Zaman examines the extent to which micro-credit reduces poverty and vulnerability through a case study of BRAC, one of the largest providers of micro-credit to the poor in Bangladesh. Household consumption data collected from 1,072 households is used to show that the largest effect on poverty arises when a moderate-poor BRAC loanee borrows more that 10,000 taka (US
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