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Does Training Really Matter to the Rural Poor Borrowers in Bangladesh? A Case Study on BRAC

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  • David Hilton
  • Kazi Tanvir Mahmud
  • Golam Mohammad Shamsul Kabir
  • Asif Parvez

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The goal of this study was to assess the effect of training programme on the healthcare expenses of the households under BRAC's microcredit programme. This study showed that training played a significant role in improving the healthcare expenditure of the household. Other socioeconomic variables such as household income, family size, age of the borrower, non‐institutional loan received by borrowers, amount of microcredit received from BRAC by borrowers, amount of loan instalment and distance of rural market from the borrowers' house were also appeared as the key determinants of households' healthcare expenditure. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • David Hilton & Kazi Tanvir Mahmud & Golam Mohammad Shamsul Kabir & Asif Parvez, 2016. "Does Training Really Matter to the Rural Poor Borrowers in Bangladesh? A Case Study on BRAC," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(7), pages 1092-1103, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:28:y:2016:i:7:p:1092-1103
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    1. Farhana Ferdousi & Parveen Mahmud, 2019. "Role of social business in women entrepreneurship development in Bangladesh: perspectives from Nobin Udyokta projects of Grameen Telecom Trust," Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, Springer;UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship, vol. 9(1), pages 1-21, December.
    2. Farhana Ferdousi & Parveen Mahmud & Kazi Tanvir Mahmud, 2022. "Fostering Youth Entrepreneurship Development through Social Business—Evidence from Bangladesh," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(1), pages 1-16, December.
    3. Faria Islam Oridi & Md. Shawan Uddin & Md. Faisal-E-Alam & Taha Husain, 2022. "Prevailing factors of rural women entrepreneurship in Bangladesh: evidence from handicraft business," Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research, Springer;UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship, vol. 12(1), pages 305-318, December.
    4. Julia Shu-Huah Wang & Bilal Malaeb & Fred M. Ssewamala & Torsten B. Neilands & Jeannie Brooks-Gunn, 2021. "A Multifaceted Intervention with Savings Incentives to Reduce Multidimensional Child Poverty: Evidence from the Bridges Study (2012–2018) in Rural Uganda," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 158(3), pages 947-990, December.

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