REPLICATING GRAMEEN IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Abstract

Papua New Guinea is a country with relatively low levels of social and economic development, particularly for women. Severe social problems, including unemployment, lawlessness and domestic violence combine with a particular set of geographic, historical, cultural and economic conditions to make life difficult for the country's rural poor, and especially for women. Self‐help through the provision of small‐scale credit for income‐generating activities is a relatively new concept in Papua New Guinea, although some forms of rural credit have existed since the 1960s. The need and demand for such credit are very high.

Citation

Fleischer, R. (1999), "REPLICATING GRAMEEN IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA", Humanomics, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 110-144. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb018830