Who takes the credit? Gender, power, and control over loan use in rural credit programs in Bangladesh

World Development

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-63

  Goetz, Anne Marie ^a   Gupta, Rina Sen ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROGRAMME; CREDIT PROVISION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GENDER PERSPECTIVE; LOAN USE; RURAL FINANCE; RURAL POOR; WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 0029774522     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(95)00124-U     Document Type: Article

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