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The limitations of microcredit for promoting microenterprises in Bangladesh

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  • Alam, Md. Mahmudul

    (Universiti Utara Malaysia)

  • Molla, Rafiqul Islam

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Microcredit is regarded as a tool for poverty alleviation. A stereotyped delivery system is designed and used for promoting and serving survival- and subsistencelevel economic activities, particularly for poor female clients. In Bangladesh its success has raised social expectations as to its potential as also a promoter of microenterprises, which are growth-yielding small businesses beyond subsistencelevel economic activity. The field survey shows that about 11.7% of the microcredit borrowers are this kind of potential or growing microentrepreneur. It also shows that microcredit’s standardised delivery system, particularly in respect of gender preference, loan size, loan disbursement, and repayment schedules, is a strong limiting factor in effectively serving the microenterprises, which require a more flexible credit package. Therefore a methodological modification is necessary to accommodate flexibility in the microcredit delivery system.

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  • Alam, Md. Mahmudul & Molla, Rafiqul Islam, 2019. "The limitations of microcredit for promoting microenterprises in Bangladesh," OSF Preprints edp3c_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:edp3c_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/edp3c_v1
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