Bangladesh and Finance policy
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- The BLDS finance collection
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- Search for the latest finance-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Inter and intra regional analysis of factors that generate and inhibit economic growth.
- B. Guha-Khasnobis; F. Bari / Global Development Network, 2000
- This paper extracts insights from cross-country analysis about the performance of individual South Asian countries and the region as a whole. The article investigates the determinants of growth in each country. The article find...
- Does microfinance really help the poor?: new evidence from flagship programs in Bangladesh
- J. Morduch / MacArthur Network, Princeton University, 1998
- This paper draws on a new cross-sectional survey of nearly 1800 households, some of which are served by the Grameen Bank and two similar programs, and some of which have no access to programs. Households that are eligible to bo...
- The Grameen Bank: a financial reckoning
- J. Morduch / MacArthur Network, Princeton University, 1999
- Assesses th importance of subsidies to Grameen Bank's development and how difficult it would be to achieve the microfinance “best practice” of full economic sustainability. The paper also re-evaluates repayment rates associa...
- Low savings rates in South Asia countries could act as a constraint to their GNP growth
- P. Agrawal / South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes, 2000
- Report of a study analysing the performance of the South Asian countries regarding savings and investment rates in comparison with East Asia. Econometric analysis shows that the main factors behind the lower rates of savings in...
- Banking on the poor? : branch placement and non-farm rural development in Bangladesh
- Martin Ravallion; Quentin Wodon / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
- In Bangladesh, Grameen Bank puts banks in areas where gains from switching from farming to nonfarm enterprises favor the poor. Other banks put more weight on potential gains to the nonpoor. Ravallion and Wodon assess whether the place...
- Does Swedish debt relief contribute to economic growth? Does economic growth reach the poor? Does Sweden influence policies in partner countries? Have donors supported the "right" reforms?
- H. White / Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 1999
- Programme aid - that is, import support, debt relief and budget support - has constituted a considerable part of Swedish aid in the 1990's. However, the volumes of programme aid have fallen both in relative and absolute terms during t...
- What effects have one of the largest providers of micro-credit to the poor in Bangladesh had on poverty?
- H. Zaman / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Presents the main argument that micro-credit contributes to mitigating a number of factors that contribute to vulnerability, whereas the impact on income-poverty is a function of borrowing beyond a certain loan threshold and to a cert...
- Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI)
- Bangladesh Enterprise Institute is a non-profit, non-political research centre. Established in October 2000, the Institute has established for itself a reputation for excellence in its research and advocacy work focusing on the growth of private enterprise in Bangladesh. The Institute promotes issues of importance to the private sector and seeks to initiate essential measures and influence policy...
