Rural women have been challenged by loan rates exceeding 25 percent, making access to financial services a distant dream for many

As a school teacher, wife and mother of two sons, Mahfuza Mina from Bongram village of Pabna's Bera upazila is like many a contemporary Bangladeshi woman: busy...

Commercial banks and non-banking financial institutions must provide minimum Tk 50,000 as loan to at least a woman entrepreneur each year