Islamic micro-finance programme and its impact on rural poverty alleviation
Bangladesh launched a shari’ah based micro-finance programme in 1995 under the Rural Development Scheme to uplift the overall socioeconomic standards of rural poor. It covered 0.52 million group members, 94% of whom are females. This paper presents findings on this experiment using 1,020 responses i...
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Universiti Utara Malaysia
2010
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| Online Access: | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/25063/1/IJBF%207%201%202010%20119%20136.pdf |