Poverty and BRAC’s Microcredit Programme: Exploring Some Linkages

Published By: BRAC on eSS | Published Date: August, 24 , 1997

This paper looks at BRAC’s Rural Development Programmes’ (RDP) interventions and consumption based poverty using household expenditure data collected from 3518 households in fourteen villages in Matlab between April and August 1995. Poverty lines and measures are constructed to compare the socioeconomic status of BRAC members relative to non-members. [Working Paper Number: 18]

Author(s): Hassan Zaman | Posted on: Dec 24, 2010 | Views(959) | Download (211)


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