over 98 percent of grameens loans have been paid back but the wall street journal says that 20% of the loans took more than a year longer than the time agreed to pay the loan back. grameen says that more than half of its borrowers in bangladesh (close to 50 million) now: have all children of school age in school, all household members eating three meals a day, a clean toilet, a rainproof house, clean drinking water and can pay 300 taka-a-week (around 4 usd) towards their loans.