Credit for Alleviation of Rural Poverty: The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh

975 borrowers acre activities add to total Agricultural Credit Amount of Loans Atiur Rahman average Bangladesh Bank Bangladesh Institute Bangladesh Krishi Bank bank workers bank's capital center chief collective enterprises control villages cottage industries credit program Crop cultivation deposits Development Studies Dhaka economic employment estimated expenditure farm female borrowers financed Government Press Grameen Bank loans Grameen Bank members Group Fund IFAD income effect increased Institute of Development International Labour Organisation investment joining the bank landless livestock loan amount loan utilization Mahabub Hossain male market for nonfarm meen Bank ment Muhammad Yunus nontarget-group occupation overdue participants Patuakhali district poultry raising poverty poverty line Processing and manufacturing production project and control project villages proportion rate of interest repayment rowers Rural Industries sample sector sex of borrower Share of Loans sources Survey of 975 Table Tangail District tion Tk million total loans Trading and shopkeeping transport weekly installments women