POLI 474 Lecture 14: POLI474L14
10 Mar 2017
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Announcements: exams will be returned soon: friday conferences (tomorrow), thursday conferences (tuesday, lamia karim today, friday conference debates. Context: role of ngos in bangladesh (bgd) Why bgd: 1: geography = site of ecological disaster. Example: 1970, cyclone sidr hits bgd (still e. pak), kills >50,000 people: weak infrastructure, ngos = signi cant conduit in providing services that government was unable to provide, 2: alliance with military. Example: 1987 ood occurs, dictator (ershad) ask development institutions for funds, development institutions do not trust $ in the hands of military (directly), give $ to ngos to disperse: ngos > provide primary education, water, micro nance, etc. Prov. services supposed to be provided by government: penetration of rural (ngos) Microcredit: de nition: extension of +sm. loans > poor borrowers = generally lack collateral, stable employment, veri able credit history) Collateral = necessary to pay for something: support people w/o ability to access capital, goal:
