Increasing access to rural finance in Bangladesh : the forgotten "missing middle" /

Since the mid-1990s, Bangladesh's banking sector has grown considerably. Despite the boom and the government's efforts to increase access in rural areas, rural financial markets have shrunk in relative terms. As a result, access to finance by micro, small, and medium-size enterprises and m...

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Main Author: Ferrari, Aurora
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington DC : World Bank, 2007
Series:Directions in development (Washington, D.C.)
World Bank e-Library.
Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Finance.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Abbrevations and Acronyms; Executive Summary; Tables; Boxes; Figures; Chapter 1 The Missing Middle: Supply-Side Evidence; Chapter 2 The Missing Middle: Demand-Side Evidence; Chapter 3 Constraints on Increasing Access to Finance for the Missing Middle; Chapter 4 Increasing Access to Finance for the Missing Middle; Appendix 1 Definitions Used in This Report; Appendix 2 Comparing Rural Lending in Bangladesh and India; Appendix 3 The Rural Micro, Small, and Medium-Size Enterprise Finance Survey; Appendix 4 Recapitalization Scenarios and Costs of Closing BKB and RAKUB.