Assessing the Poverty and Vulnerability Impact of Micro-Credit in Bangladesh: A case study of BRAC
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1 I would like to thank the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) for commissioning this paper as background material for the WDR 2000/01. Most of this work was carried out while working in BRAC's Research and Evaluation Division and as a doctoral student at Sussex. I am grateful for comments received from Mushtaque Chowdhury (LSE) on earlier versions of this work. I would like to thank the BRAC-ICDDR,B Matlab project in Bangladesh for use of their data.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999