Product Description: Based upon the author's extensive fieldwork among peasants in the rural areas of Bangladesh, this study deals with the problems facing the rural population due to scarcity of land ownership and work opportunities. Jansen discusses the different kinds of competition for scarce resources that take place within the rural population itself, as well as the larger framework within which this competition for resources takes place...read more

Product Description: Bangladesh's Grameen Bank provides small, dedicated loans to a poor, rural population, using a realistic system of debt servicing, credit education and an unusual method of peer-monitoring in lieu of non-existent collateral. In addition to analyzing the Bank in terms of its theory, performance, impact and costs, this book explores the responsibility of the concept for other countries and applications...read more

Product Description: "A welcome addition to the literature on poverty.... The book is full of interesting descriptions." --Economic and Political Weekly "Rethinking Rural Poverty is the result of painstaking research undertaken by the team of five researchers and makes absorbing reading...read more

Product Description: Book by Khandker, Shahidur R., Khan, Zahed H., Khalily, Baqui

Explains how an American-educated banker, Muhammad Yunus, head of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, has transformed the lives of the indigent--especially women--through his practice of making loans to the poor who have no assets for collateral yet who have had a near perfect repayment rate. Tour.

Product Description: This book examines rural poverty in Bangladesh. Based on detailed empirical research and surveys of households in Bangladesh, it provides an accurate portrait of the everyday situations faced by the rural poor in Bangladesh today, covering all aspects of household behaviour...read more

Product Description: The study of poverty dynamics is important for effective poverty alleviation policies because the changes in income poverty are also accompanied by changes in socioeconomic factors such as literacy, gender parity in school, health care, infant mortality, and asset holdings...read more