Creating women’s capabilities through microcredit in Bangladesh

Microcredit, Financial Inclusion and Women Empowerment Nexus in Bangladesh

This paper examined the role of microcredit in women empowerment though financial inclusion. A survey was conducted among the low profile unprivileged rural women living in southwestern part of Bangladesh. Data were collected on the usage and effectiveness of microcredit and analyzed using STATA 11. Multiple regression and descriptive statistics were used to interpret data. The study found that...

The Impact of Microcredit Borrowing on Household Consumption in Bangladesh

The rapid expansion of microcredit in recent years renders knowledge of its impact on poverty critical. Unfortunately, empirical investigations have been limited by endogeneity issues. This paper suggests a strategy for handling the endogeneity of microcredit borrowing without specifying instrumental variables, allowing for estimation using observational data. The model is identified by an assu...

Inside Productivity of Microcredit in Bangladesh: A Surgical Analysis

Microcredit typically refers to petty collateral-free credits given to groups of poor members in the society for their socioeconomic emancipation. It is claimed to be an effective tool for enhancing income of the poor primarily through creation of selfemployment opportunities for them in a variety of small economic activities. However, in this survey of microcredit borrowers in Bangladesh it is...

Creating Organisational Capabilities: Learning by Doing

This study brings together insights from the research literatures on organisational capabilities and learning by doing to examine the response of Irish manufacturers to tightened environmental regulation in the 1990s. Using a fine-grained data set on firms’ technology and management practices, we test whether those practices over time resulted in the creation of learned ‘static’ capabilities, t...

The Way through Empowerment of Medical Toxicology in Bangladesh