i The Poor and Their Money An essay about financial services for poor people Stuart Rutherford Institute for Development Policy and Management University of Manchester January 1999 The Department for International Development will be publishing this work in New Delhi during 1999. For further information contact Sukhwinder Arora at the Department for International Development, New Delhi, India. ii PREFACE Over the last 15 years initiatives to provide financial services to poor people (the
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Chapter – 01: Introduction 1.1 Origin of the Report – Any academic course of study has a great value when it has practical application in real life. Only a lot of theoretical knowledge will be of little importance until & unless it is applicable in practical life. So we need proper application of our knowledge to get some benefit from our theoretical knowledge to make it more fruitful. As the classroom discussion alone cannot make a student perfect in handling the real business
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* Sadman Kabir Mohammed * Shamma Nafisa * Nusrat Sarmin * Tanzibul Islam Ridoy * Environment: Developmental strategy for Cyclone Bangladesh is a newly independent country; this country is only 43 years old. But, within her little age she faces different problems. Still she is fighting and her only weapon is development. Bangladesh passed her four decades through different development projects. Among them environmental developments is one of her priorities. Environment is that
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called SHG (self-helped groups) represent the community of 15-20 women involved into savings and credit activities. Usually these groups are formed on voluntarily basis, but with encouragement of an external agency (NGO, MFI, government). The case study about the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, presented in the economic development textbook, written by M.P. Todaro and S. C. Smith, is a good practical illustration of how credits can be provided to the groups of poor women. Considering that both sources emphasize
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countries of the world. The world conscious people are also concerned about the increase of Green House Gases and Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and thereby depletion of Ozone layer. As such, every person and especially the professionals must have greater role to check the environmental degradation. Bankers are the important professional group who has interaction with the other groups of people and also with general masses. They can adopt different green activities within their in-house environment and
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Thoughts on Economics Vol. 20, No. 03 Problems of Bangladesh Garments Sector and their Solution– An Islamic Perspective Sarwar Md. Saifullah Khaled( Abstract: The paper relates to the Bangladesh garments sector. Garments workers are badly exploited by the factory owners in collaboration with their foreign buyers resulting in a sub-human standard of life of workers. The occasional agitations for higher wages and better amenities for workers are alleged to be fanned up to violence by some
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1020722030 Grameenphone – An Overview Since 1997 the widely acclaimed “Village Phone Program” of Grameenphone – a joint venture telecom company, set up by Grameen Bank, with foreign (Norwegian) capital3 – has provided telephones to 39,000 villages in Bangladesh, bringing access to the telephone networks to some 70 million people. This extraordinary achievement is rightly cited in the development literature as a success, an innovation which managed to bring the Information Society to the remotest and most
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Economic Activities and Health Hazards of Street Children in Dhaka City *Prof. Md. Nurul Islam Ph.D Director ISWR,University of Dhaka **Md. Saiful Islam Lecturer, Department of Social Work Asian University of Bangladesh Abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of street life on the health of poor children who live and work full-time on the streets of Dhaka city. The prime objective of this study was to know the health hazards of street children, who live in the
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Old Age Allowance Programme of Bangladesh: Challenges and Lessons Sharifa Begum Senior Research Fellow Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) Background of the Old Age Allowance • As in other countries, Bangladesh too started experiencing population ageing; • According to UN Population Projection, share of older people by 2050 will reach around 20% and absolute number would become more than 40 million. • Government’s concern for older people until 1990’s was limited
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problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, scope of the study, limitations of the study and conceptual frame-work of the study. 2. Background to the study The micro finance business embraced today arose in Bangladesh in 1976 with the founding of the Grameen Bank. It became popular in the 1980s s a response to doubts and research findings about a state delivery of subsidized credit to the poor farmers. According to Ledgerwood (2001), prior the 1980s government
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