Keyword: Grameen Bank

Joint Liability as Loan Collateral (8/16/2000)

The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh uses joint liability as a screening device to overcome insufficient information on the soundness of individual loan projects and to circumvent the dangers of providing loans without collateral among the poor.

Keywords: asymmetric information, Bangladesh, default, Grameen Bank, joint liability, loan collateral, Mohammad Yunus, peer monitoring, repayment

Phone Power (2/26/2005)

Mobile phones that require less fixed investment and maintenance can extend telecommunications to areas that copper wires might have taken decades to reach.

Keywords: appropriate technology, Bangladesh, cellular phones, developing countries, digital divide, fishermen, Grameen Bank, India, market information, mobile phones, phone lady, R&D