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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Micro-credit"”.
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Micro-credit and household productivity : evidence from Bangladesh.
This paper tests the effect of micro-credit on household productivity to determine whether micro-credit programs facilitate productivity gains through skills transfer and human capital formation in addition to the provision of credit. The data come from two rounds of household surveys in rural …
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The role of micro-credit programmes in alleviating poverty in Bangladesh
Micro-finance institutions (MFIs) aim to reduce poverty by providing small loans to poor people. Governments and international agencies such as the World Bank are spending billions of dollars to increase the outreach of MFIs across the world. However, the empirical evidence of micro-credit on …
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Investing in Women: Myths and Realities of Micro-Credit Programs in Peru
… the use of loans. The pervasive presence of micro-finance institutions offers an alibi for donors as well as governments to withdraw from broader policies for poverty reduction. While micro-credit programs can help alleviate poverty among a very select group of women, who are not the poorest …
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Micro Credit for Economic Empowerment of Vulnerable Women: A Case of Kimara Matangini Stree
… general objective of the project is to establish micro-credit schemes for women for income generating activities at Kimara Matangini Street (Mtaa) in Saranga ward, Kinondoni municipality, Dar es Salaam region. The project has been conceived basing on Community Needs Assessment (CNA) conducted in …
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Developing a Training Manual for Aaidro's Communities Micro Credit Scheme in South Meru, Arusha, Northern Tanzania
Involvement in micro-enterprise self-employed activities is an important option for the low income, unemployed, disadvantaged society, in rural and urban areas of Tanzania. These low income people need to seek assistance from micro enterprise development programs because they cannot obtain …
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Sustainable Access through Micro Credit and Saving Association for Vumilia Group in Mtoni Mtongani Ward, Dar es Salaam
A dissertation on Sustainable Access to Credit through Micro-credit and Savings Association for income poverty reduction by savings and loans at Vumilia group in Mtoni Mtongani is a result of the Community Needs Assessments (CNA) conducted in Mtoni ward Temeke District. Prior to project …
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Micro-credit for development : testing the claims with a group of women borrowers from Cape Town's Khayelitsha township
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Micro Finance and Urban Women Micro Entrepreneurs -The case of Hananasif Community Development Fund –Kinondoni-Dar es Salaam
The research aimed at investigating the impact of micro finance Institutions on urban women micro entrepreneurs, the case of Hananasif micro-credit institution in Kinondoni district, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Women in their efforts to engage in income generating activities faced certain obstacles …
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The impact of Microcredit Finance in the Performance of Small and Media Business Enterprises: A Case Study of Temeke Municipality
This study discusses the impact of Microcredit in the performance of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Temeke Municipality Dar es salaam Tanzania. The study has the following objectives: To assess the impact of MFIs loan in the business expansion of SMEs, to assess whether or not MFIs …
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Smoothing consumption across households and time : essays in development economics
… the face of fluctuations in income and expenses: credit (borrowing and savings) and insurance (state contingent transfers between households). The first chapter asks why insurance among households in rural Thai villages is incomplete. The second chapter analyzes the impacts of micro-credit. The …
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The Impact of Integrated Savings and Credit Groups on Socio Economic Development to People with Leprosy Related Disabilities in Tanzania
… the impact of integrated savings and credit groups on socio-economic development to people with leprosy related disabilities in Chazi- Morogoro, Nandanga-Lindi and Hombolo- Dodoma urban and Nyabange- Mara. The study had three specific research objectives which were: first, to examine …
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Economic Empowerment and Political Participation
… of Guediawaye, Senegal, the study finds that microfinance in Senegal is vastly different from more popular notions of microfinance. The overwhelming majority of microfinance clients in Senegal borrow as individuals, and not as members of groups. Both men and women are active in the …
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Development and its discontents: NGOs, women and the politics of social mobilization in Bangladesh
… organizations) in Bangladesh. My work focuses on micro-credit NGOs, the Grameen Bank model in particular, and on the strategy pursued by them to "empower poor women." I look at how the extension of credit to "poor women" intersects with existing gender and community relations to produce results …
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Enslaving Development: An Anthropological Enquiry into the World of NGO
… NGO projects targeting women, notably through micro-credit programmes, contribute to the rise of women-only organisations as well as matri-focal groups that constitute a challenge to male-dominated village associations. Micro-credit also polarises the traditional notions of money into moral and …
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Idiosyncratic Income Shocks, Access to Credit, and Households' Welfare in an Agrarian Economy: Micro -Econometric Studies on Rural Households in Bangladesh
… fixity, resulting from the lack of access to credit, is the most plausible theory to explain this observed phenomenon in Bangladesh. Farm households who have access to micro-credit institutions are found to have a higher adoption rate than those who lack access to credit.
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Card Carrying Christians: Credit, Debt, and Believing in Emerging Colombia
… Colombiaâ s largest mega-church, a Protestant micro-credit program in BogotĂĄ, various commercial banks, a rural Pentecostal community, and a multi-level marketing company. Together, this evidence establishes that financializing capitalism in Colombia depends upon a Christian morality. The …
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The Valle del Yaqui Project : building the capacity of Yaqui women to help themselves
… housing needs of the Yaqui, which employs micro-credit lending strategies to finance the purchase of a home. The financial model allows the PVE Program to also deal with the issues of economic, social and political integration that that the Yaqui, one of the oldest and poorest native …
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Linking the Community with Low Interest Rate Micro Credits Providers-The Case of Makongo Kinondoni Municipal
… earners need to access to low interest rate micro credits. The findings show that there were various micro credit providers but their interest rate are very high making difficult for economic development of a common man. While in despair they did not know what to do. The researcher spoke to …
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From ideals to institutions : institutional entrepreneurship in Mexican small business finance
… One case is the activation of the small business credit market in Mexico. The second is the expansion of micro credit in the country. Through these cases, the dissertation proposes that, contrary to conventional thinking, institutional change is not rare because institutional entrepreneurs are …
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