Poor people often lack collateral, which is one of the reasons that they have no access to formal financial institutions. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide financial services to poor people. Traditional MFIs have received some criticism, for instance that they do not target the poorest of the poor. This paper, with a field study from Dhaka, takes a closer look at SafeSave, a new MFI working in a quite different way than the traditional MFIs in Bangladesh. The conclusion of this paper is that SafeSave’s more flexible services are able to reach the poor better than the services of traditional MFIs, but might not be the best solution seen from a long-term development perspective.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-5984 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Calles, Erika |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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