Grameen Bank : performance and sustainability (English)

The Grameen Bank, in Bangladesh, has attracted worldwide attention by providng small loans to the rural poor and recording high repayment rates. It has over two million members spread over 35,000 villages, 94 percent of whom are women. The paper discusses what the Grameen Bank is, what it does for the rural poor and at what costs, its sustainability as well as its potential for expansion and replicability. The Grameen Bank's success as a bank is only...
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Khandker, Shahidur R.; Khalily, Baqui; Khan, Zahed.

Grameen Bank : performance and sustainability (English). World Bank discussion papers ; no. WDP 306 Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/893101468741588109

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