Essays about: "The Grameen Bank"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words The Grameen Bank.

  1. 1. “Accountability and women's empowerment: a case of Microfinance and Grameen Bank”.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Sadat Aman Saad; [2021]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Microfinance is the small-scale provision of financial services to poor people, particularly to women. Over the last four decades, the World Bankhas promoted microfinance as a key tool for addressing poverty alleviation and women’s empowerment (Weber, 2016). READ MORE

  3. 2. Impact of Microcredit Program on Women's Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh

    University essay from Karlstads universitet

    Author : Gias Uddin Ahmed Choudhury; [2020]
    Keywords : Microcredit; Women Empowerment; Ordinary Least Squares; Probit Model; Instrumental Variable Regression.;

    Abstract : Background – This study is an attempt to explore the relationship between microcredit and the socio-economic empowerment of women in rural Bangladesh. Microcredit is simply the extension of a small amount of collateral-free institutional loans to jointly liable poor group members to generate employment and income enhancing activities. READ MORE

  4. 3. Investigating a Social Entrepreneurial Business Model in India and its Applicability to Wider Contexts.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Jasmine Hammam; [2016]
    Keywords : Social entrepreneurship; urban slums; portability; cultural context; India;

    Abstract : Social entrepreneurship has grown in popularity since Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the year 2006. Pollinate Energy is an Australian social business working to improve the lives of the urban poor in India. READ MORE

  5. 4. Microcredits: a success or a fairytale? : A study of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh by using secondary data

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik

    Author : Destina Sönmez; [2014]
    Keywords : microcredits; economic growth; poverty alleviation; women empowerment; bangladesh; women; grameen bank; mikrokrediter; tillväxt; fattigdomsbekämpning; självständighet. bangladesh; kvinnor; grameen bank;

    Abstract : The global economy celebrates microcredit as poverty alleviation for the individual and as a way to boost a country’s economic growth. This study examines if results from previous research on Grameen Bank’s microcredits are supported by statistics. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Grameen Bank and Beyond the Millennium Development Goals : Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Georg Strasser; [2014]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; microfinance; Grameen Bank; poverty; Millennium Development Goals;

    Abstract : Inspired by the precedence of eradicating worldwide poverty and the unresolved discussion how to solve this problem, this paper attempts to illustrate how microfinance by the Grameen Bank can alleviate poverty beyond the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). These goals are arguably limited by the use of poverty lines and may not reflect the true level of poverty beyond quantifications. READ MORE