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Date: March 13, 1997


Micro-credit Is Subject of Lecture at the Woodrow Wilson School

Princeton, N.J. -- Geoffrey Wood, director of the Centre for Development Studies at the University of Bath, will give a lecture entitled "Micro-credit: Another Development Fashion?" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, March 24, in Robertson Hall, Bowl 1, at 4:30 p.m.

Wood has worked on the Indian subcontinent for the last 25 years, conducting primary research and advising donors' programs, such as the United Kingdom Overseas Development Administration (uk oda), as well as the large non-government organizations, or ngos, and the Government of Bangladesh. He is currently working on urban-poor livelihood strategies for Dhaka slums, strategies for social organization in Northern Pakistan, and he is completing a book on North Bihar, India. For his latest project, Wood is developing a new work on livelihoods in collaboration with colleagues in Venezuela and Peru.

Wood has authored coauthored, or edited, Exploitation and the Rural Poor ; Labeling in Development Policy ; The Water-Sellers ; Breaking the Chains: Collective Action for Social Justice among the Rural Poor in Bangladesh ; Bangladesh--Whose Ideas? Whose Interests? ; and Trading the Silver Seed . He coedited his latest book, Who Needs Credit? Poverty and Finance in Bangladesh (1997), with Iffath A. Sharif, an economist and an M.P.A. candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School.

Wood's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

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