Seasonality and Microcredit The Case of Northern Bangladesh

The mismatch between credit repayments and income seasonality can create serious distortions. However, typically Micro-Finance Institutes (MFIs) do not provide any adjustments due to the income seasonality. For instance in Northern Bangladesh, Income and consumption downfalls during the time of post...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shonchoy, Abu S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tokyo Springer Japan 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
Series:SpringerBriefs in Economics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Overview and current practice of Micro-finance across the world
  • Chapter 3 Seasonality affecting Micro-credit in Bangladesh
  • Chapter 4 Socio-economic scenarios of the sampled areas with sample data
  • Chapter 5 Details of the experiment design
  • Chapter 6 Impact of micro-credit on migration and food consumption
  • Chapter 7 Repayment behaviour of borrowers
  • Chapter 8 Conclusion