4. Poverty Outreach and BRAC's Microfinance Interventions:Programme Impact and Sustainability
Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: This paper is based on the experience and evolution of a large microfinance provider BRAC - \nwhich is working in Bangladesh. The paper stresses that poverty is not homogeneous, but is \nmanifested in different ways and in different contexts. It considers BRAC's response to this \nbroader understanding of poverty in Bangladesh, referring particularly to the ways in which \nspecific programmes were tailored and adapted to embrace new information about client needs \nand behaviour. The study goes on to discuss impact assessment studies conducted on BRAC's \nmain poverty alleviation programme in rural areas - Rural Development Programme - that \nprovided significant data to substantiate BRAC's positive effect on poverty alleviation, as well as \nproviding information that led to subsequent programmatic shills in emphasis.
Source: IDS Bulletin
Author: Shantana R. Halder
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2000694470