Poverty alleviation: is economics any help? Lessons from the Grameen Bank experience.

Part of a special section on world poverty. The writer argues that poverty is created by the inadequate understanding of human capabilities and by the failure to create enabling theoretical frameworks, concepts, institutions, and policies to support those capabilities. He maintains that approachin...

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Published in:	Journal of International Affairs Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 47 - 66
Main Author:	Yunus, Muhammad
Format:	Article
Published:	Journal of International Affairs Fall 1998
Subjects:	Grameen Bank (Company) Poor people Rural credit Rural development Bangladesh
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