Microcredit

It is vital to make federal institutions more accessible to the impoverished population in order to strive toward social inclusion. Many American’s who fall beneath the poverty line restrain from seeking federal aid due to the complicated path of receiving financial relief. In 1996, the Welfare Reform Act was passed and on the surface seemed to present a wide variety of benefits and provisions for those who rely on welfare. According to reports, within three years of the reforms existence…

help the poor in his home country. Grameen Bank, which was set up in 1976 and was then transformed into an independent bank from governmental legislation in October 1983, is a microfinance organization and community development bank that offers microcredits or Grameen credits to the very poor without asking for guarantees. Since its launch, the bank has provided loans to more than eight million poor people in Bangladesh. Professor Yunus was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for the…

Although microfinancing sought out to alleviate poverty and empower women in the past, new studies reveal that microfinancing has instead hindered the growth and liberation of women using religious means in Egypt. The progress of women in Egypt has dwindled due to the fact that the original goal of empowerment is no longer abided by. Civil Service Organizations set out to aid the poor people of Egypt however they have also left women choosing between their own moral judgement and material goods…

Globalization can be simply defined as one big global economy, making international trades (import and export) easier. With a bigger marketplace, product demands are bigger, which means more business opportunities, and it helps exported nations to boost their productivities and as well as employment rates. Thus, poverty may be cut because of globalization. However, alongside with more demands, competitors increased too. Increased competition from globalization helps stimulate innovation (to…

Women all over the world are becoming micro-entrepreneurs. $1.25 a day is not enough money in order to start a business. Many people have noticed the need of women who want to start a business. Micro loans were invented to help. Micro loans are a small loan given to those women who want to start a business, but are lacking the money. This loan gives the needed boost to these women to start their business. Micro loans are indeed helping these women. These micro loans help women to become less…

He has a lot more work to do first. Then again, he probably encountered a bit of skepticism when he first floated the idea for microcredit, too. But anyway, some potential flaws would be that in present, too many organizations fall outside Yunus’s definition of a social business and by dismissing them, it could constrain their activity and discourage innovation. The encouragement which…

BASIC STRUCTURE OF A MFI: Fig-1.1(Basic Structure of MFI in India) • The MFI structure is basically a hierarchical structure with the Daily/Contractual workers at the bottom of the hierarchy. The work of these is to identify the people who are in the need of loan assistance. • Next in the hierarchy are the middlemen and frontline staff. There work is mostly related to establish an amiable connection with the people who are in need of loan. • Then after a successful interaction it…

Microfinance is the provision of financial serves to the poor people with very small business or business projects (Otero, 1999 cited in Marzys, 2006). Commercial banks are not able to cater to the financial needs of the poor people due to lack of collateral security and also due to information asymmetries and hence a very small proportion of the world population has access to financial instruments. Robinson (2001 p. 9) defines microfinance institution as small scale financial services…

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film we watched earlier this semester). She then went to work cleaning and cooking until she met her now husband at age 17. Soledad’s husband, a few months later, left to find work in the United States. This left Soledad, like the women from the microcredit film, trying to support herself by selling crackers in the street until her husband eventually found work on a fruit farm near Sodus. After working for the same farmer, they were left with a choice to return to their home in Mexico, or face…