Bishnu Kumar Adhikary

Biographic Data

ID4158129
NAMEBishnu Kumar Adhikary
GIVEN NAMESBishnu Kumar
FAMILY NAMEAdhikary
SIGNATUREADHIKARY B K
AFFILIATIONSRitsumeikan Asia Pacific University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX0

  • The Grameen Bank “Empowering the Poor” Model of Microcredit

    Open AccessYasushi Suzuki, Munim Kumar Barai et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Comparative Asian…2011References: 4

    This paper proposes an institutional approach to understanding the success of a South Asian “empowering the poor” model of microcredit — the “Grameen Bank”. We compare the institutional settings in the model with those in the traditional mode of Japanese relation-based banking which greatly contributed to Japan's high growth, to shed an analytical light on the advantages and sustainability of Bangladesh's microcredit industry. We find that the av…

  • A ‘bank rent’ approach to understanding the development of the banking system in Bangladesh

    Yasushi Suzuki, Bishnu Kumar AdhikaryARTICLEContemporary South Asia2010References: 7

    This paper applies the ‘bank rent’ approach to understanding the development of the banking system in Bangladesh since its independence. The paper uses the financial restraint model as an analytical framework and argues that there still remains room for creating bank rents in order to change the current dreary performance of the banking system. The paper unearths a varied level of high nominal lending rates, high nominal spreads and too low or ne…