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Does Training Really Matter to the Rural Poor Borrowers in Bangladesh? A Case Study on BRAC
Author(s) -
Hilton David,
Mahmud Kazi Tanvir,
Shamsul Kabir Golam Mohammad,
Parvez Asif
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of international development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.533
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1099-1328
pISSN - 0954-1748
DOI - 10.1002/jid.3133
Subject(s) - loan , socioeconomic status , health care , business , demographic economics , economics , socioeconomics , economic growth , finance , environmental health , medicine , population
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.