IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ags/bdbjaf/211976.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Financing The Rural Poor In Bangladesh: Experiences Of Some Government And Non- Government Organizations

Author

Listed:
  • Rahman, M. Lutfor
  • Alam, Md. Ferdous

Abstract

The article describes the findings of a study on the credit programmes designed for the small farmers and landless poor, by some government and non-government organizations. It was found that the programmes under consideration provided employment opportunity to the participants at least for the project period. Housewives also benefited from the programmes since they could utilize their leisure time productively by engaging themselves in income generating activities. However, it was found that many of the loanee-participants could not yet settle permanently with any particular occupation in spite of a number of years of involvement in the project. A good number of loanees still depend on selling labour. The amount of credit provided by most of the organizations was reported to be highly inadequate. Many participants also borrowed from other institutional and non-institutional sources. The main trust of these programmes was found to be augmenting monetary benefits rather than overall development of the participating families.

Suggested Citation

  • Rahman, M. Lutfor & Alam, Md. Ferdous, 1986. "Financing The Rural Poor In Bangladesh: Experiences Of Some Government And Non- Government Organizations," Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, vol. 9(2), pages 1-20, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:bdbjaf:211976
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.211976
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/211976/files/Article_02%20Vol-IX_2.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.211976?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Financial Economics;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:bdbjaf:211976. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/febaubd.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.