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Women have a leading role in the allocation and use of microcredit, individually and in Joint Liability Loans, because she is one of the main pillars of the family. This paper analyzes the role of women in microcredit focusing on education and gender gap reduction. Finally, we study the problems and weaknesses of microcredit.
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Dr. Yunus began experimenting with lending to poor people in the village of Jobra (Bangladesh) during his tenure as a professor of Economics at Chittagong University in the 1970s. See Hulme (2008) for further information about the establishment and evolution of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh.
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Webb et al. (2002), members of the Food Policy and Applied Nutrition Program of Tufts University, in a study carried out with 606 IGVGD women who were engaged in the 1998/1999 IGVGD cycle, suggest a series of measures to attract the ultra-poor women to the program.
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Gámez-Gutiérrez, J.A., Saiz-Álvarez, J.M. (2012). Microcredits for Women Entrepreneurship: Are They an Effective Tool to Avoid Family Impoverishment?. In: Galindo, MA., Ribeiro, D. (eds) Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 1000. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1293-9_11
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