Does Training Really Matter to the Rural Poor Borrowers in Bangladesh? A Case Study on BRAC

David Hilton, Kazi Tanvir Mahmud, Golam Mohammad Shamsul Kabir and Asif Parvez

Journal of International Development, 2016, vol. 28, issue 7, 1092-1103

Abstract: The goal of this study was to assess the effect of training programme on the healthcare expenses of the households under BRAC's microcredit programme. This study showed that training played a significant role in improving the healthcare expenditure of the household. Other socioeconomic variables such as household income, family size, age of the borrower, non‐institutional loan received by borrowers, amount of microcredit received from BRAC by borrowers, amount of loan instalment and distance of rural market from the borrowers' house were also appeared as the key determinants of households' healthcare expenditure. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Date: 2016
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