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| World Bank |
Posted
on 03-Dec-01 07:08 PM
Check this crap out.........
http://www.worldbank.org/developmentnews/stories/html/120301a.htm
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| ?? |
Posted
on 03-Dec-01 07:12 PM
what's wrong with it?
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| sunakhari |
Posted
on 04-Dec-01 08:57 AM
my question too - whats wrong with it?
It seems like you have no idea what some other INGOs are up to - there are other INGOs who have already initiated programs like that - and those programs are at least 7 years old. So for most people this is old news
I see nothing wrong with them - time women were uplifted! what say you??
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| joie de vivre |
Posted
on 04-Dec-01 12:15 PM
Perhaps he has a problem with women empowerment. World Bank, can you say “confidence issues”? The way I see it only men who fear being out-shadowed, out-ranked, out-smarted, and out-done by women would have a problem with what World Bank is doing.
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| arnico |
Posted
on 05-Dec-01 09:04 PM
Not every rural credit scheme empowers women.
Take the much-praised Grameen bank in Bangladesh for example. Yes, it gives credit that they would otherwise have a hrad time getting. But under the idea of teaching the borrowers some discipline, the bank has them repay the debt in equal amounts on a weekly basis ... going weekly to visit the man (almost always) sitting at the Grameen bank, bowing down, handing over the cash... But, for any investment, whether chickens or a loom or mobile phone for the village... how in the world are the returns going to start accumulating within one week of borrowing the money? So what does the woman have to do? Go plead for mercy from the bank representative (man) during weeks when she does not have the money...
That is what I know from a Grameen Bank video. Does anyone have more experience with rural credit schemes in Nepal or elsewhere?
And also with how they have managed to survive or not in Maoist controlled areas?
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