The Grameen Bank, a Program That Began as a Research

question 76

Multiple Choice

The Grameen Bank, a program that began as a research project at the University of Chittagong (Bangladesh) in 1976 and became an independent bank by 1983, focuses on which of the following issues?

• A) Improving the status of women
• B) Helping displaced people
• C) Improving the status of landless and destitute people, especially women
• D) Providing large loans to women
• E) Increasing its clientele among the disadvantaged

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Definitions:

Causal Relationship

A connection between two events where one is understood to be directly responsible for causing the other.

IRB

IRB (Institutional Review Board) is a committee established to review and approve research involving human subjects, ensuring that the research is ethical and the rights and welfare of participants are protected.

Binomial Effect Size Display

A method for displaying and understanding more clearly the magnitude of an effect reported as a correlation, by translating the value of r into a 2 × 2 table comparing predicted with obtained results.

Correlation Coefficients

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