Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
16 Decisions: Implication for Credit Programmes
- Self-help and mutual aid
- Autonomy of the bank
- Subsidiary/no free services
- Respect for social structures/no standard internal by-laws
- Economic potential
- Replying on one's own resources/no loans without savings
- Representativity and responsability of leaders
- Openness in management and decision-making procedures
- Savings culture/regularity/faithfulness
- Cross-fertilization through exchange of ideas
- Source:
- Bedard, Guy (ed), Savings and Credit as
Instruments of Self-Reliant Development of the Poor.
Proceedings of an International Workshop held in
Feldafing, January 25-28, 1988. Bonn: Deutsche Stiftung
fur internationale Entwicklung (DSE), 208 pp.
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