TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lionel,W.P.A.
AU  - Lund,Ragnhild
AU  - Wickramanayake,B.W.E.
AU  - Routray,Jayant Kumar
ED  - Swedish International Development  Authority ( SIDA), 
TI  - Efficiency and effectiveness of the Janashakthi (Bank) Programme in the Hambantota District of Sri Lanka
T2  - Thesis
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Bangkok
PB  - Asian Institute of Technology
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Research
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - Hambantota
N1  - A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for  the Degree of Master of Science; Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1994
N2  - This study was undertaken with a view to probing efficiency  and effectiveness of the Janashakthi (Bank) Programme of the  Hambantota District of Sri Lanka, as a credit-based participatory  development programme, and exploring its replicability as an  alternative poverty alleviation strategy.  The focus of the study is on the performance of the  Janashakthi Bank and the socio-economic upliftment of the  beneficiaries, as resulting from the bank's performance over the  past four years (1990-94) since its inception, as a people's  venture. The beneficiaries are share- holders, asset- builders,  decision- makers and the borrowers of the bank.  The findings of the research show that the programme has  performed at a considerably high level of efficiency and  effectiveness, and that the beneficiaries, while improving their  position of investment, income, savings and acquisition of assets,  have been able to alleviate certain economic problems inherent in  the i r poverty as well as contributing to its perpetuation.  Alleviation of some of the prevalent and major problems associated  with poverty, and the social advancement attained by the  beneficiaries, imply greater empowerment, holding out promise of  alleviation of poverty of all beneficiaries, in future.  Moreover, the findings also bear out the potential for  sustainability of the programme, supporting its replicability.  However, the programme seems to need further strengthening and  boosting in order to be capable of lifting its beneficiaries from  the position of poverty in the near future, solving their social  and economic problems adequately, and enhancing their capacity for  control ling factors affecting their lives. The recommendations made  herein are directed towards that end
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