03259nam a2200349 a 4500 5911 BD-DhAAL 100214s1996 bg a b 001 0 eng d 7495 7495 9840513770 NNC NNC DB-DhAAL 332.1753095492 19 Todd, Helen, 1943- 39425 Women at the center : Grameen Bank borrowers after one decade / Helen Todd. Dhaka, Bangladesh : University Press, 1996. xviii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-248) and index. 1. The Bank in the Village -- 2. What Credit Can Do: Women's Contribution -- 3. Wives and Partners -- 4. Taka Talks: Centrality in the Household -- 5. Strategies for Survival -- 6. Still Poor: Disaster and Dependency -- 7. Women on Their Own -- 8. Group and Center: Solidarity and Self-Interest -- 9. Centered on the Children -- Appendix 1: Methodology -- Appendix 2: Children's Growth -- Appendix 3: The Sixteen Decisions. For two decades, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has successfully administered a unique program that lends small sums to poor women for income generation. This is the first empirical study to examine the long-term influence of these loans on the borrowers, and it demonstrates that credit alone can fundamentally change the lives of poor women - even in the absence of other aid programs and in an environment distinctly hostile to women's autonomy. Helen Todd spent a year in two villages in Bangladesh following the lives of women who have been borrowing from the Grameen Bank for a decade. She focuses on the day-to-day processes of how they generate money from their tiny loans, what they do with the resulting income, and how much control they retain over it. . In stark contrast with nonmembers, most Grameen women emerge from this study as strong individuals, successfully battling for positions of power in their families and for respect in their villages. Moreover, the Grameen women's gains have been sustainable, since most of them have invested in access to land. Through the vivid stories of individual women, Todd paints a picture of women empowering themselves with the crucial ingredient of continued access to credit over the course of a decade. BIED Complimentary copy from BIED 5911, 35548 Grameen Bank. 39426 Bank loans Bangladesh. 39427 Rural women Bangladesh. 39428 Poor women Bangladesh. 39429 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 332_175309549200000_TOD_1996 0 8068 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2010-02-14 0 332.1753095492 TOD 3010005911 2010-02-14 1 2010-02-14 BK 0 0 ddc 0 332_175309549200000_TOD 0 24189 SCL SCL GEN 1999-01-09 2 8 332.1753095492 TOD 3020001315 2026-05-03 2026-05-02 2 2014-04-23 BK 0 0 ddc 0 332_175309549200000_TOD 0 67979 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2020-02-23 Complimentary copy from BIED 0 332.1753095492 TOD 3010035548 2020-02-23 3 2020-02-23 BK Transferred from BIED to General Stacks