Grameen Bank Multiple Services in Bangladesh

About the Book

The book narrates Grameen Bank (GB) and its sister organizations’ multiple services in Bangladesh and other MFIs’ services in different countries that the author has received from his working experience. The author was involved in GB credit, plus many programs in Bangladesh. The book informs readers about Grameen Bank’s multidimensional services that have been functioning in Bangladesh since its inception 1976. Many articles of the book published in different international journals, like International Journal of Research Studies in Management and International Journal of Research Studies in Education, Emerald Publishing UK. The book describes how Grameen Bank (GB) women borrowers and other MFIs’ borrowers have handled their microcredit borrowing, their savings, and how MFIs could serve better to microborrowers for their social, political. and economic empowerment within their community. Each article of the book also contains how MFIs could serve better integrated financial services (socioeconomic services for the microborrowers) to disadvantaged women that can lead to better provision of integrated microcredit services to them. The book is also looking for solutions to empower microborrowers’ socioeconomic development in Bangladesh in addition to Grameen group-based microcredit program.

About the Author

Kazi Abdur Rouf is a Professor of the Noble International University, a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University; and a Research Associate both at the Center for Learning Social Economy and Work (CLSEW), University of Toronto and at theYork Center for Asian Research (YCAR), York University. Kazi is researching on green social enterprise development, micro-financing, women and environmental peace, local resource management, women human rights development, NGOs and community development, community gardening, mini cooperatives development in Canada and in Bangladesh. Dr. Kazi Abdur Rouf completed his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2011; Masters in Environmental Studies (MES) and Post-Graduate Diploma in Business and Environment, Schulich Business School, York University in 2008; BA (with distinction) in Women Studies and International Development, York University in 2006; Diploma in Social Work, Project Management Centennial College in 2005; BA (Honors) and MA in Sociology, Chittagong University, Bangladesh in 1977 and in 1979 respectively. He had worked in different community development agencies in several countries like Bangladesh, Philippines, India, Pakistan, UNHCR Afghanistan; UNDP Namibia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho; Good Faith Fund USA and Toronto Social Services and Red Cross Canada.