The origin of ORGANIZATION@1 can be traced back to NUMBER@1 when Professor PERSON@1 , a MISC@1 scholar at ORGANIZATION@2 and Professor at ORGANIZATION@3 , launched a research project to examine the possibility of designing a credit delivery system to provide banking services targeted to the rural poor .

The ORGANIZATION@1 was started NUMBER@1 when Professor PERSON@1 , a MISC@1 scholar and Professor at ORGANIZATION@3 , researched how to provide banking for the rural poor .
