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- Title
- Can microfinance programs address social exclusion?
- Author(s)
- Habib, Mohshin; Jubb, Christine
- Abstract
- This paper investigates in a Bangladeshi setting whether membership of a microfinance program reduces perceptions of social exclusion as well as impacting on poverty reduction. Using a control group that has no microfinance institution membership, it compares the responses of both members and non-members on questions relating to socio-political participation and social inclusion. The evidence is consistent with membership giving rise to reduced feelings of social exclusion compared to the control group without membership.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Source
- Paper presented at the 2010 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 04-06 July 2010
- Publication year
- 2010
- Keyword(s)
- Bangladesh; Microfinance; Poverty reduction; Social exclusion
- Publisher
- AFAANZ
- Publisher URL
- http://www.afaanz.org/openconf/2010/openconf.php
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2010 the authors. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
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