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    Compare and contrast Grameen Bank (GB) Higher Education Student Loan Service in Bangladesh and the state-managed student financial aid program in Canada and America
    (2018-08) Abdur Rouf, Kazi
    This policy research paper narrates ‘Compare and contrast the state-managed Canada and the American student financial aid program with the NGO-managed Grameen Bank (GB) Higher Education Student Loan program in Bangladesh’. This paper is a nutshell consolidation of the research that focuses on to compare and contrast policies, strategies and products of the Canadian and the American student financial aid policies and products with the policies, strategies and products of the Grameen Bank (GB) Higher Education Student Loan program for the second generation of GB borrowers in Bangladesh. The study finds the Canadian and the American student higher education financial aid programs have distinct variations; however, some of their policies, products and implementation strategies are similar to each other; however, the Canadian and the American student higher education financial grants and loans policies have been modifying over time to address the needs and demands of the students since inception. However, although the Grameen Bank student higher education loan policies and products, initiated in 1997, it remains unchanged even it has limited expansion although the GB student higher education loan program is very popular and it has huge demand in Bangladesh. This research generates new knowledge of NGO--managed student loan financing services in Bangladesh that has impact to address poverty and employment creation in Bangladesh. The research findings help Canada and America and GB Bangladesh to improve their student higher education financial aid services in in these countries.
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    Grameen Bank community school organizing, and forming of groups and centers experience in Bangladesh
    (2019-06-08) Abdur Rouf, Kazi
    The objective of the paper is to narrate the Grameen Bank (GB) group and center organizing, designing, forming, and building tools in Bangladesh and to identify what mistakes the author and his colleagues have made during their journey in GB. It explores how they could do better jobs in organizing, designing, building and forming groups and centers and other activities if they are skilled in the community work ahead of their jobs in GB. The paper discusses different concepts, thoughts, and ideas of community organizing, community designing, community building, and different mechanisms of GB loans and savings services for the poor in Bangladesh. GB is continuously changing its center organizing and building tools and developing innovative loans, savings products that is suitable to its borrowers to overcome their poverty. The paper narrates the author and his colleagues’ personal working experience in GB during the late 1970s and 1980s. Moreover, the paper incorporates different challenges GB faces like social and economic barriers at the macro and micro level in implementing its services to poor people in Bangladesh at different times; and how GB overcomes these challenges and developed different innovative products and services in its Phase-1 and Phase-11. The narrated history of forming groups and organizing centers of GB and its different loan and savings products evolution process generates new knowledge and evidence in the field of group-based micro-credit. The process of evolution of GB would be a learning lesson for the readers, micro-finance practitioners, researchers and different community organizers in Bangladesh and elsewhere.
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    Social economy community outreach education
    (2019-07-13) Abdur Rouf, Kazi
    The social economy is trying to address the issues of social and economic disparity and to find alternative socio-economic solutions for poverty eradication and to facilitate community outreach public well-being. Currently, the social economy (SE) courses are teaching in many universities, colleges, and develop social enterprise different initiatives. Moreover, social economy researchers present their research findings at different seminars, conferences, symposiums; many books and journals are published on the social economy; however, very few initiatives have taken to educating the end users of community outreach the social entrepreneur. Hence, the paper focuses to discern how social economy (SE) concept, its different initiatives, operational strategies, and policies can be reached to community outreach people in order to orient them about these phenomena. The paper contains the definition of SE, the importance of SE, and issues in SE with examples, how social economy community outreach learning can be facilitated to inform readers. The paper is written based on literature reviews, the author’s personal experience, and secondary data. The paper finds SE ideas are traveling within academicians, researchers, social economy study students, and social economy practitioners. Therefore, the social economy community outreach education is very important to educate community outreach people to develop their understanding of the social economy, their benefit, to know how social enterprises can be initiated and managed by the community outreach people and prospective community social entrepreneurs.
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    Study findings of the Grameen Bank higher education student loan services in Bangladesh
    (2019-11-22) Abdur Rouf, Kazi
    A survey conducted on the Grameen Bank higher education student loan services in Bangladesh in 2015-2016. The survey sample size is only 61, and the paper narrates the survey findings. The purpose of the survey is to know the GB higher education student loan portfolios, the status of the student loan repayment rate, and the role of the student loan users in community development in Bangladesh. The study finds the student loan program of GB is accessible and useful to the children of GB borrowers for their higher education study in Bangladesh. The student loan receiving children of borrowers of GB is ornamental to engage in different community organizations and civic activity participation in their neighborhoods. However, GB needs to massively expand this program and improve its higher education student loan collection and monitoring strategies in Bangladesh.