THE ROLE OF MICRO CREDIT TO ALLIVIATE RURAL POVERTY OF BANGLADESH: A CASE STUDY OF JAGORONI CHACRO FOUNDATION

In the recent year poverty alleviation has become one of the burning issues worldwide. About hundred thousand million people are living under poverty line at the end of 2011 all over the world. A systematic development of a nation mainly depends on the proper alleviation of poverty. For this reason poverty alleviation have become global challenges, especially in the developing country like Bangladesh. The micro credit programme is playing a vital role in the poverty alleviation. In parallel of government of a country, many NGOs and economical institutions have initiated different activities on the basis of Microcredit programme to alleviate the poverty. In this article we have investigated the role of Microcredit to alleviate the rural poverty in Bangladesh. Our main objective in this paper is to study and analyze the activities on Microcredit programme carried out by the Jagoroni Chacro Foundation (JCF), one of the leading NGOs in Bangladesh. This paper focuses the poverty structure of the rural population (mainly women) of the country and the strategy to alleviate poverty based on the primary data.