Bienvenue au Development in Practice

Volume 7, Numéro 1

• Editorial
  • Editorial 7(1)
    Eade, Deborah
• Articles
  • La lutte mondiale pour le droit à un endroit où vivre
    Kothari, Miloon
  • Le conflit communal, les ONG et le pouvoir des symboles religieux
    Bock, G. Joseph
  • La main-d'oeuvre rurale africaine et la Banque Mondiale: une autre perspective possible
    Fahy Bryceson, Deborah; Howe, John
  • Junto con los niños: les enfants des rues du Mexique
    Jones, Gareth A.
  • Renforcement des pouvoirs et survie: les travaux humanitaires dans le cadre des conflits civils (deuxième partie)
    Thompson, Martha
• Point de Vue
  • Deux approches de l’évaluation des résultats des projets de développement
    Meyer, Marion; Singh, Naresh
  • Rural grassroots organisations in Haiti: a case of wasted potential
    Reinert, Kenneth A.; Voss, Jon E.
• Notes Pratiques
  • When relief and development programmes meet: a case-study from the Lesotho Red Cross
    Sanger, Dan; Adamson, Mike
  • Reconstruction in El Salvador: the social relations of community self-build
    Sands, Geoff
  • PRA in the shade of the mango groves
    Boraian, P.; Narayanasamy, N.; Ramesh R.
  • Finance: friend or foe?
    Cammack, John
• Rapport de Conférence
  • Partnership: casual affairs, marriages of convenience, or lasting relationships?
    Eade, Deborah
• Commentaires
  • Questioning the critics: the case of BRAC and other credit programmes in Bangladesh
    Zaman, Hasan
  • A reply
    Rogaly, Ben
• Synthèses de Recherche
  • The community re-integration of Romanian orphanage graduates
    Fyvie, Claire
  • Children, conflict and displacement
    Tolfree, David
• Critiques de Livres

Questioning the critics: the case of BRAC and other credit programmes in Bangladesh

Zaman, Hasan

Drawing from the experiences of BRAC in Bangladesh, the author highlights some of the major areas of controversy around micro-credit organisations, specifically criticising points made by Ben Rogaly (in Development in Practice 6(2)). Arguing that further research is needed to determine cost-benefit ratios when providing specialised credit systems for use by specific sub-sections of society, he maintains that trade-offs occur between accountability and flexibility, and that to ignore such complexities leads to too narrow a view of micro-credit and its potential.

Mots clés: Travail et moyens de subsistence; Societé civile; Aide internationale; Asie du Sud

   

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