Publication Date
7-1-1998
Summary
Across rural Bangladesh, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have offered poor women economic opportunities. Among these NGOs, the Grameen Bank has successfully implemented group lending to provide poor rural women access to collateral-free loans. This paper focuses on whether Grameen Bank members’ regular interaction at the village-level loan repayment building, the “center,” facilitates the members’ ability to establish and strengthen networks outside their living quarters and kinship groups. The results indicate that, by attending weekly center meetings, Grameen Bank members have the opportunity to build a kind of social wealth not measurable in simple financial terms.
Document Type
Working Paper
Category
Financial Inclusion
Subarea
Global Asset Building
Original Citation
Larance, L. (1998). Building social capital from the center: A village-level investigation of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank (CSD Working Paper No. 98-4). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development.
Project
Global Assets Project
Keywords
microfinance, Rural, Women, GAP, financial services
Recommended Citation
Larance, L. (1998). Building social capital from the center: A village-level investigation of Bangladesh's Grameen Bank (CSD Working Paper No. 98-4). St. Louis, MO: Washington University, Center for Social Development.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7GX4B2F
Notes
Subsequent publication: Larance, L. Y. (2001). Fostering social capital through NGO design: Grameen Bank membership in Bangladesh. International Social Work, 44(1), 7–18. doi:10.1177/002087280104400102