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Social capital and microfinance
Chapter one is titled "Social Capital and Group Banking." Lending to the poor is costly due to high screening, monitoring, and enforcement costs. Group lending advocates believe individuals are able to select creditworthy peers, monitor the use of loan proceeds, and enforce repayment better than an …
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Optimal strategies for the development of microfinance in Korea and the impact of microfinance
Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2012-06-29T10:00:13Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) Dissertations and Theses - Economics (ID: 690) No. of bitstreams: 3 yoon_youngeun.pdf: 1588125 bytes, checksum: …
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Microfinance Usage And Living Standards In Kenya Microfinance Usage And Living Standards In Kenya
The establishment and operation of microfinance institutions have been aimed at reducing poverty. Even though the microfinance industry's strengths outnumber its disadvantages, the microfinance industry still faces major challenges in delivering its services. The general objective of the study is …
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Risk, Religion, and Islamic Microfinance
… characteristics of conventional and Islamic microfinance borrowers. Although there is extensive literature on the topics of conventional microfinance and Islamic finance individually, few studies characterize borrowers who choose between these financial products. For this study, field …
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Risk management in microfinance : identities, perceptions, behaviours and interests of microfinance stakeholders in Plateau State, Nigeria
Studies on microfinance risk management in Nigeria are inclined to quantitative analysis of risk based on business and accounting principles without recourse to understanding and interpreting meanings from the lived experiences of relevant stakeholders. This thesis is an in-depth study of the …
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Identifying antecedents of marketing orientation of microfinance institutions in Ghana : the case study of microfinance companies
… as a challenge afflicting billions of people. Microfinance is seen as a means of alleviating extreme poverty through supporting low income customers, micro enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using microfinance products to ameliorate risks associated with the poor. Modern …
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It Takes a Village to Do Microfinance Right: Effects of Microfinance on Gender Relations in Bali
Debates on whether microfinance remains an effective measure to eradicate poverty and empower women have continued with a bigger question of if an alternative model is available to outweigh the problems of group-based solidarity-based lending scheme. This dissertation aims to study if and how a …
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Microfinance Partnerships: A Bridge for Refugees
<p>My thesis examines the extension of microfinance to a refugee community; the objective focuses on economic assistance and a bridge to provide the required basic needs, as reported by the refugee population. With the global growth of refugees, the repositioning of refugees from either being cast …
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The Impact of Microfinance On Poverty
<p>Microfinance is a rapidly growing movement that has quickly spread from hundreds of microfinancial institutions (MFI's) to thousands, with the overall yearly micro-loan amount in the billions of dollars as of 2009. Many researchers caution that the impact of microfinance on poverty is expected …
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Microfinance institutions in nineteenth century Ireland
… social and political ideology underpinnings of microfinance institutions in Ireland. It also analyses the sources, uses, and consequences of microfinance for the borrower individually and the Irish economy as a whole. The thesis studies the developments of a number of microfinance institutions …
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Strength of weak ties in microfinance
… (1973) theory of the strength of weak ties in microfinance based on an empirical study in India. Specifically, it looks to test if the addition of weak bridging ties to the networks of microfinance clients who own businesses will improve their businesses and help to reduce their poverty. This …
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Microfinance regulation in China and India
… Governments in different countries to emerging microfinance sectors have varied dramatically and as a result so have the outcomes for these sectors. As two of the fastest growing developing countries in the world over the last two decades, both with vast poor rural populations lacking access to …
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Evaluating the State of Loan Repayment on Management of Microfinance Institutions: A Case of National Microfinance Bank, Tanzania
… way loans repayments are managed at the National Microfinance Bank Headquarters Dar es Salaam. The idea came up as a result of analyzing loan repayments basing on facts found through Observation, Interviews and Document analysis conducted in the department concerned revealed the need to understand …
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Sustainable microfinance in Indonesia : a sociocultural approach
Microfinance programs were established in the Netherlands East Indies as a strategy to alleviate poverty in pre-dominantly Moslem rural communities. When Indonesia won its independence, these government-subsidized microfinance programs based on the payment of interest were continued until 1983, …
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The sustainability of microfinance institutions in South
Microfinance targets the poor and very poor, both in urban and rural areas. It has become a common method of poverty alleviation in many developing countries. Several microfinance institutions have adopted a social mission to eradicate poverty by providing credit to the poor. In the past, …
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The Effects of Grameen-Model Microfinance Institutions and Self-Help Group Microfinance on Women’s Economic Empowerment in Rural India
… road to equality is economic empowerment through microfinance. Economic empowerment consists of an increase in savings, income, ownership of property or a microenterprise, and access to social services and training. I compile studies of two most common types of microfinance models used in India in …
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Microfinance in rural Ghana : a view from below
… perspective, the implementation processes of microfinance interventions and the effect of the implementation processes on households and businesses. The thesis’ central argument is that microfinance discourse has neglected the perspective of microfinance users and this can negatively affect …
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Financial sustainability of rural microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Tanzania
An enduring problem facing microfinance institutions is how to attain financial sustainability. Several studies have been conducted to determine the factors affecting financial sustainability of microfinance institutions using large and well developed MFIs in various countries. However, no such …
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Crisis Management by Social Movements: Learning from Indian Microfinance
… Andhra Pradesh issued an ordinance prohibiting microfinance institutions from distributing and collecting loans following allegations that over-indebtedness and coercive loan recovery tactics were causing borrower suicides. While no evidence substantiating a link between microfinance and …
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