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Bangladesh is a developing country facing with acute electricity shortage. The rural communities of Bangladesh are the worst sufferers of this crisis having limited or even in many cases no access to grid electricity. Solar energy has been proven to be a very promising resource to improve the ongoing electricity shortage. This paper investigates the role of microfinance to develop a sustainable energy...
In this paper we examine how a third-party – Grameen Bank in Bangladesh – created social capital that has been a boon to the explosive growth of Microfinance in Bangladesh and elsewhere. Using Putnam's definition, we show how Grameen Bank created social capital by forming horizontal and vertical networks, establishing new norms and fostering a new level of social trust to solve the collective action...
The aim of this article is to produce a comprehensive analysis of the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in terms of repayment. We focus the analysis on the impact of group lending, nonfinancial services and dynamic incentives on repayment performance. We test for endogeneity of loan size and use instrumental variables to correct for it. In the second section of the paper, we use a comparative...
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