[PDF] Top 20 Microfinance and Household Poverty Reduction: Empirical Evidence from Rural Pakistan

... efforts, microfinance has been slow to scale up, and outreach to women has been particularly ...credit from formal sources (World Bank, ...for microfinance in Pakistan, which, according to ... See full document

... codes from an analysis of the transcripts and output from the Leximancer data mining software ...concepts from all respondents, which allowed us to interpret them as elements of a second order theme ... See full document

... to rural poverty ...and empirical studies argue that there is an inverted U-shape relationship in which urbanization first increases to a peak, then decrease with economic development (see Henderson, ... See full document

... of rural credit are; The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) in Thailand ...Secondly, microfinance has received attention for its seasonal use and ... See full document

... as Pakistan, the majority of the rural population is not connected to the electrical ...in rural areas, especially during the summer months, experience power shortages for up to 18 h per ...to ... See full document

... permanent reduction of poverty through the provision of health services, education, housing, sanitation water supply and adequate ...for poverty alleviation. Microfinance programs mobilize and ... See full document

... multidimensional poverty UNDP (2016), 39% of the Pakistani’s are living under ...of poverty is observed in FATA and Baluchistan provinces. Poverty level in rural areas is ...to poverty ... See full document

... the rural population in the form of grants for agriculture needs, subsidies, and crop insurance ...major reduction in rural poverty occurred between 1978 and 1983 following land redistribution ... See full document

... ₵444.04 from the techniques of Nearness Neighbor and Radius matching, ...These empirical results corroborate the finding of the MCA Compact report by the MiDA (2013), MCC (2013) and the empirical ... See full document

... human poverty is well ...of poverty is greatest among the illiterate households and tends to decline at higher levels of education in developing ...in poverty is possible through higher level of ... See full document

... states from the Geographical zone namely Ogun, Oyo and Osun ...collected from the sampled ...obtained microfinance loan in at least previous three ...for microfinance loan in the previous ... See full document

... imported from overseas and this requires skilled labour to work with the imported machineries and ...and poverty, countries at the lower spectrum of structural transformation may not be able to reduce ... See full document

... that poverty is the main hurdle to achieve economic ...(EFA) poverty could be eliminated with ...effects poverty in Pakistan. They took the data from Household Integrated ... See full document

... Islamic microfinance on the livelihood of ...Islamic microfinance institutions are not gender ...Islamic microfinance creates value to promote economic and social development, em- ployment and growth ... See full document

... both household and individual specific risks (idiosyncratic) and risks related to the community in which the households or individuals find themselves ...among rural communities in ...most rural ... See full document

... Judging from the proved advantages of informal finance, policy attention has to shift in the direction of integrating the formal and informal systems rather than eliminating the ...the rural sector. In most ... See full document

... substantially from existing ...of rural customers to improve efficiency or to expand the activity of the ...in rural financial ...financial rural markets to exploit ...of rural finance ... See full document

... linking poverty reduction as a proxy by log Household final consumption expenditure and economic growth proxy by log Arable land growth rate (hectares), Gross capital formation growth rate ... See full document

... of poverty and scarcity of livelihood opportunities in rural areas of the ...in rural area of ...selected from rural community in ...recommends rural community of Pakistan ... See full document

... the Microfinance Ordinance was built up in 2001 end of procedure microfinance establishments authorized by the State Bank of ...Six microfinance banks began working in Pakistan in the initial ... See full document