Tag: Group lending

In this video series-1, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, discusses how in times of global financial crisis the poor have proved themselves to be credit-worthy, contrary to the conventional wisdom of large banks. Speaking at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C, Dr. Yunus talks about Grameen’s Microcredit project in New York and […]

This note explains the intricacies of these new guidelines used by Grameen field staff and offers three criticisms of the new methodology.

This Grameen II note covers the methodology used in collecting ‘financial diary’ information from clients and provides the results of the study by closely focusing on clients and funds.

This note attempts to use data from ‘financial diaries’ element of Grameen II study to examine the growth, volatility and multiplicity of MFI membership among a small number of villagers.

This note describes the new loan arrangements and how staff and borrowers have reacted to them. (Analysis of the bank’s financial performance is in another Note 4 in this series)