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Seasonal and extreme poverty in Bangladesh : evaluating an ultra-poor microfinance project

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Microfinance is often criticized for not adequately addressing seasonality and hard-core poverty. In Bangladesh, a program known as PRIME was introduced in 2006 to address both concerns. Unlike regular microfinance, PRIME introduces a microfinance scheme that offers a flexible repayment schedule and consumption smoothing, as well as production, loans. It targets the ultra-poor, many of whom are also seasonally poor, with a severe inability to smooth consumption during certain months of the year more...

Added by Zunia.org on July 20, 2010

Disaster, damage, loss and needs assessment : training guidelines

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In the aftermath of the 2007 cyclone sidr in Bangladesh, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the World Bank provided the necessary financial support as well as technical assistance to the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) in the form of training program on how to conduct Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLa). Training guidelines have now been put together that will be made available widely in Bangladesh with the aim of establishing and institutionalizing a training more...

Added by Zunia.org on July 20, 2010

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