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Anonymous. 1997. "Mundane Economics:
Grameen Banking,"
Environment, v39n6 (Jul 1997): 14-15.
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[The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh is used as an example of
the
application of mundane science to sustainable development. The bank
began
making loans under the assumption that the poor can be trusted
with
money, and the practice has worked quite well and has generated
much
interest in its approach.] {Grameen bank;
Sustainable
development; Banking; Lending}
Anonymous. 1995. "A Bank that Only Lends to the Poor," UNESCO
Courier, n9 (Sep 1995): 15-16.
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[Muhammad
Yunus founded the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983
as an institution
that lends money only to the very poor. In an
interview, Yunus discusses
the bank's founding and its operations.]
{Grameen
bank; Banks; Loans; Poverty}
Bernasek, Alexandra;
Stanfield, James Ronald. 1997. "The Grameen Bank as
Progressive
Institutional Adjustment," Journal of Economic Issues,
v31n2 (Jun
1997): 359-366 .
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[Bernasek and Stanfield
discuss the effect of the Grameen Bank
in Bangladesh on gender. Analysis
of the Grameen Bank experience has been
largely neoclassical,
emphasizing the incentives that confront the
rational individual. But
there are important social aspects to the
Grameen Bank. When queried
about the group aspect, male borrowers
emphasized the incentives created
to select group members who were least
likely to default and to monitor
behavior after the loan is made. These
emphases closely mirror the
results presumed by conventional economic
models. In contrast, in
response to the same question, female borrowers
emphasized mutual
support and assistance and the sharing of information
and advice among
group members.] {Sexes; Banks; Bank
loans}
Hossain, Ishtiaq. 1998. "An Experiment in Sustainable Human
Development:
The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh," Journal of Third World
Studies,
v15n1 (Spring 1998): 39-55.
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[Hossain examines the Grameen Bank--rural bank--of Bangladesh.
It
uses a sustainable human development approach to alleviate poverty
among
the rural poor by loaning very small amounts of money to people who
cannot afford to offer banks property as collateral.]
{Rural areas Banking Poverty Sustainable development}
Papa, Michael J.; Auwal, Mohammad A.; Singhal, Arvind. 1997.
"Organizing
for Social Change Within Concertive Control Systems: Member
Identification, Empowerment, and the Masking of Discipline,"
Communication Monographs, v64n3 (Sep 1997): 219-249.
-
[Papa et al use the theory of concertive control to gain
insight
into why members and workers identify so strongly with the
Grameen Bank
in Bangladesh and how participation within the organization
offers
opportunities for empowerment.] {Banks;
Communication;
Power}
Yunus, Muhammad. 1997.
"Empowerment of the Poor: Eliminating the
Apartheid Practiced by
Financial Institutions," Humanist, v57n4
(Jul 1997): 25-28.
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[Yunus discusses his experience in Bangladesh of
seeing poor
people, particularly women, unable to work and earn money
because banks
will not give them business loans. He founded the Grameen
Bank to help
these people have successful businesses.]
{Commercial
banks Small business Women Poverty Bank loans}
Yunus, Muhammad. 1997. "A Bank for the Poor," UNESCO
Courier, n1
(Jan 1997): 20-23.
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[Yunus,
founder of the Grameen Bank, describes the genesis of a
pioneering
institution that has encouraged the social and political
emancipation of
needy women in Bangladesh.] {Financial
institutions;
Women; Social change; Poverty; Loans; Financial
services}