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Volume 7, Número 1

• Editorial
  • Editorial 7(1)
    Eade, Deborah
• Artigos
  • A luta global pelo direito a um lugar para viver
    Kothari, Miloon
  • Conflito em comunidades, ONGs e o poder dos símbolos religiosos
    Bock, G. Joseph
  • O trabalho rural na África e o Banco Mundial: uma visão alternativa
    Fahy Bryceson, Deborah; Howe, John
  • Junto con los niños: crianças de rua no México
    Jones, Gareth A.
  • Poder e sobrevivência: trabalho humanitário em meio a conflitos civis (parte dois)
    Thompson, Martha
• Ponto de Vista
  • Duas abordagens para avaliar os resultados de projetos de desenvolvimento
    Meyer, Marion; Singh, Naresh
  • Rural grassroots organisations in Haiti: a case of wasted potential
    Reinert, Kenneth A.; Voss, Jon E.
• Notas Práticas
  • 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
• Relatório de Conferência
  • Partnership: casual affairs, marriages of convenience, or lasting relationships?
    Eade, Deborah
• Comentários
  • Questioning the critics: the case of BRAC and other credit programmes in Bangladesh
    Zaman, Hasan
  • A reply
    Rogaly, Ben
• Pesquisas
  • The community re-integration of Romanian orphanage graduates
    Fyvie, Claire
  • Children, conflict and displacement
    Tolfree, David
• Resenhas de livros

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.

Palavras-chave: Trabalho e meios de vida; Sociedade civil; Cooperação internacional; Asia do Sul

   

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