[PDF] Top 20 MICROFINANCE LOAN DISBURSEMENT AND POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN TOGO: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF RURAL WOMEN

... of poverty through the provision of health services, education, housing, sanitation water supply and adequate ...of women‟s empowerment has been at the centre of discussions on planned interventions for ... See full document

... as Rural Bank was started by Muhammad Yunus, a Professor of the University of Chittagong (Bangladesh) in ...targeted rural women for its credit ...the loan disbursement and ...of ... See full document

... influencing microfinance credit default have much ...eradicating poverty, gender equality, political instability, corruptions, high debt ratio and climate change ...in poverty alleviation, ... See full document

... extreme poverty in rural areas, mostly dependent on agriculture for their livelihood (World Bank, ...result, rural areas remain underdeveloped, mainly due to insufficient financial ...in rural ... See full document

... Islamic Microfinance which involves -compliant way of financing and providing credit without collateral or any property for guarantee to the marginally poor (too poor to have access to banks) for their business, ... See full document

... reducing poverty (Agyapong, 2010) and socio-economic development (Maas and Herrington, ...However, microfinance offers a solution for alleviating some of the poverty related problems that ... See full document

... Poverty alleviation on its own is a process aimed at reducing the incidence of poverty in any ...that poverty is reflected in lack of adequate food, shelter, education and health, deprivation ... See full document

... growing microfinance industry (Lascelles and Mendelson, 2011) consists of microfinance institutions (MFIs) that aim simultaneously to reach out to the poor and provide them with capital, and to be ...makes ... See full document

... that Microfinance to explore development purposes to which wide range of microfinance services can be used for poverty ...whole microfinance sector in ... See full document

... of rural peoples in Gozamen district are multidimensional poor, on average the poor people are deprived in ...all. Rural households in Gozamen district are deprived at least either all indicator of a single ... See full document

... traditional microfinance failed to include all poor people under the system because of its high interest rate and also interest component of debt which holds back Muslims as it (Riba) is strictly prohibited in ... See full document

... though women contribute to the labour force in Nigeria, the level of poverty among women is alarming ...the alleviation of poverty among men, women and ...children. ... See full document

... Finally, the field instrument contained questions designed to capture elements of borrowers’ behaviour, views and attitudes towards credit. In relation to the purpose of obtaining credit, 43% stated that it was for ... See full document

... to poverty reduction (Irwan and Romdiati 2000 ; Yusdja et al: ...reduce poverty from ...to poverty reduction go round development of large-scale agriculture and non agriculture based construction and ... See full document

... of poverty and vulnerability in rural Pakistan, the results show that microfinance can be used as an effective measure in alleviating poverty in the ... See full document

... Islamic microfinance distri- bution and its impact on microbusiness owners’ poverty alleviation in ...Islamic Microfinance Institution’s financing to microbusiness ...the poverty ... See full document

... The critical policy issues thus are: (i) continuing to make credit available at current levels (or higher levels if a faster rate of growth is desired) while ensuring the financial survi[r] ... See full document

... Head Microfinance SBP, 2011; Tameer Bank Head Operations, 2011; Chief Operating Officer PMN, ...Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF), as the principal lender to most MFIs, has tried to beef up ... See full document

... empower women to become more confident, more assertive, more likely to take part in family and community decisions and better able to confront gender ...because women are clients of MFIs does not mean they ... See full document

... of rural women in ...of microfinance on rural women empowerment and to identify the challenges faced by rural women to access microfinance ...75 women s’ ... See full document