Talking back! Empowerment and mobile phones in rural Bangladesh: A study of the Village Phone Scheme of Grameen Bank

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 327-348

  Aminuzzaman, Salahuddin ^a   Baldersheim, Harald ^b   Jamil, Ishtiaq ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; GRAMEEN BANK; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; RURAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 1342290362     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958493032000175879     Document Type: Article

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