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Micro Credit and Women Empowerment: A Study on Grameen Bank’s Strategy of Poverty Alleviation

Global Disclosure of Economics and Business

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Title Micro Credit and Women Empowerment: A Study on Grameen Bank’s Strategy of Poverty Alleviation
 
Creator Chowdhury, Mohammed Thanvir Ahmed
Begum, Musa. Halima
Reza, Md. Ridwan
Jannath, Tahrima Chowdhury
 
Subject Micro Credit, Women Empowerment, Poverty Alleviation
 
Description Generally, it is held that, Women economic participation is positively related to their status. It is assumed that participation changes woman’s power relationship and hence her status in the family, and thus a woman having no such access will have relatively low power and status. Relatively argued, women experience hunger and poverty in much more intensive ways than men. If one of the family members has to starve, it is an unwritten law that it has to be the mother. That is why women were targeted in the center point of micro credit program. However, the stagnation in the impact of micro credit on income may have serious implication for the success of micro finance institution and their long term sustainability and therefore the question deserves serious attention from researchers. The above concerns are related mostly to the long term impact of micro credit. Thereby we were intended to see the structures which dictate dependence press on these women. And if the gains they have made in income and assets are to be sustained, the control they have negotiated over their lives is to be maintained. In this regard, we want to see how women can build their empowerment and what Grameen Bank can do to strengthen them for poverty alleviation.JEL Classification Code: I32, E51 Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11903/gdeb.v2n2.13 
 
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Date 2013-12-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
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Identifier http://i-proclaim.my/archive/index.php/gdeb/article/view/150
 
Source Global Disclosure of Economics and Business; Vol 2, No 2 (2013): 4th Issue; 209-224
2307-9592
2305-9168
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://i-proclaim.my/archive/index.php/gdeb/article/view/150/148
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2016 Mohammed Thanvir Ahmed Chowdhury, Musa. Halima Begum, Md. Ridwan Reza, Tahrima Chowdhury Jannath
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