BANGLADESH STIPEND
March 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Bank is to extend for another five years a stipend scheme that has successfully encouraged poor and rural families in Bangladesh to send their girls to secondary schools that were until recently predominantly male.Working with the country's directorate of secondary and higher education, which operates the programme, the bank is to loan Dhaka US$120.9 million interest free. This will be added to US$24.7 million from the Bangladesh government and local communities.The scheme provides a financial incentive to coax families into sending them ...
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