Search

Micro-Credit: Impact, Targeting and Sustainability

Published by: IDS

This IDS Bulletin on 'Microfinance' has grown out of a workshop on 'Recent Research on Microfinance: Implications for Policy', held at IDS in February, 1998 and organised by the Poverty Research Unit at Sussex (PRUS).

Money Can’t Buy Me Love? Re-evaluating Gender, Credit and Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Lending programmes for women have attracted a growing following in international development circles because they appear to hold out the promise of combining poverty reduction objectives with the goal of empowering women.

Sustainable Livelihoods and Livelihood Diversification

Published by: IDS

This paper constitutes a preliminary output of the ODA-funded research programme on sustainable livelihoods being carried out by the Institute of Development Studies and the Poverty Research Unit at the University of Sussex, in collaboration with the International Institute for Environment and Development.

‘Money can’t buy me love?’: Re-evaluating the empowerment potential of loans to women in rural Bangladesh

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Credit programmes have become an increasingly important intervention for addressing poverty both in Bangladesh, and elsewhere, as a...

Local Heroes: Patterns of Field Worker Discretion in Implementing GAD Policy in Bangladesh

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Concerns with institutional capacity building in development tend to focus upon changes to the structures and incentive systems of...

Local Heroes: Patterns of Field Worker Discretion in Implementing GAD Policy in Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

This paper examines how field workers use their discretion to interpret and implement policy in rural credit programmes in Bangladesh, looking in particular at differences in attitudes and practices between women and men field staff.

Necessary, Sufficient or Irrelevant? Women, Wages and Intra-Household Power Relations in Urban Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

This paper examines whether women's access to income earning opportunities has implications for their position in intra-household relationships.

Non-Governmental Organizations and Rural Poverty Alleviation

This book brings together the results of 16 evaluations in four countries (Bangladesh, India, Uganda and Zimbabwe), to provide a detailed assessment of the contribution that NGOs make to rural poverty alleviation.

Background Report on Gender Issues in Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

What is it like to be a woman in Bangladesh during times of socio-economic transformation? What forms of discrimination must women deal...

Who Takes the Credit? Gender, Power, and Control over Loan Use in Rural Credit Programmes in Bangladesh

Published by: IDS

Special credit institutions in Bangladesh have dramatically increased the credit available to poor rural women since the mid-1980s.