The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story
Asif Dowla and Dipal Barua | | ISBN: 978-1-56549-231-8 $28.50 |
| 2006/291 pages/LC: 2006026415 A Kumarian Press Book
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DESCRIPTION
The Poor Always Pay Back demystifies Grameen II, an improved and more flexible version of the classical Grameen model that has been used to financially empower the poorest families in more than a hundred countries across the globe.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Asif Dowla is a professor of economics at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Dipal Barua is the deputy managing director of Grameen Bank and the managing director of the Grameen Shakti in Bangladesh.
CONTENTS
- Foreword—Muhammad Yunus.
- Introduction.
- Classical Grameen and Its Impacts.
- Loan Products under Grameen II.
- Savings Mobilization: From One Taka to 3000 Billion Taka.
- Archeology of Grameen II.
- Staff Incentives and Implementation of Grameen II.
- The Education Loan and a Program for the Poorest.
- Conclusion.
"Essential reading for institutions around the world that admire or use the Grameen approach, and a contribution to microfinance literature in general."—Stuart Rutherford, SafeSave, Bangladesh
"If the Grameen Bank is one of the great inventions of our time, 'Grameen Bank II' is one of the great re-inventions.... We should all be grateful that two long-time insiders have told the story of a remarkable transformation."—Jonathan Morduch, New York University
"Extremely useful for pro-poor bankers, supportive policy leaders of governments, and policy-oriented academics and students to have this book on their shelves."—Enterprise Development and Microfinance
"This accessible work provides considerable detail about how the bank evolved and why. Highly recommended."—Choice
"Western society characterizes the poor as 'dirty,' 'dishonest,' 'lazy,' and 'incapable of planning.' [This] book provides us with overwhelming, concrete evidence to the contrary."—Journal of International Development