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Abdul Bayes

Researcher at Jahangirnagar University

Publications -  2
Citations -  307

Abdul Bayes is an academic researcher from Jahangirnagar University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Empowerment & Population. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 295 citations.

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NGO-promoted microcredit programs and women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh: quantitative and qualitative evidence.

TL;DR: Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in rural Bangladesh are reaching out to poor women with collateral-free credit programs aimed at both alleviating poverty and increasing women's status, with significant improvements in women's social and economic status.
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Infrastructure and rural development: insights from a Grameen Bank village phone initiative in Bangladesh

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the role of telecommunications within the contexts of rural development in general and of poverty reduction in particular, and find that pursuance of pragmatic policies can turn telephones into production goods, especially through lowering transaction costs, and the services originating from telephones in villages are likely to deliver (even) more benefits to the poor than to the non-poor.