Microfinance

After reading The Great Escape and Half the Sky and considering each one carefully, I would say that the way Kristoff and WuDunn explains about helping the oppressed people and offering aid, it is more specific and very carefully explained then Angus Deaton. The way that Angus talks about aid is more general, just like giving money to poor countries but not really knowing where this donation will be applied to. For this reason, I would say Kristoff and Wudunn would be right about the foreign…

Cultivating Development is an innovative contribution to the ethnography of development.. Mosse’s argument is thought-provoking and serves to provide a helpful bridge between both the popular expectation of development organizations to be comprised of charitable, purely altruistic workers and the critical, post-modern narrative of the wholly politically-driven aid monolith (most influentially driven by the works of Ferguson and Escobar). While Mosse illuminates a portion of development work…

5. Progress of SHGS in India a. Linkage Model SHG - Bank Linkage Programme was launched in 1992by NABARD. This was first time SHGs were directly financed by banks. According to NABARD about 5.8 crore poor households have been linked with banking system through this model. The Indian Model is a “Linkage Model", as it is based on strengths of various partners: - The NGOs, the rural poor and banks. b. Financial Support RBI advises commercial banks to consider lending to SHGs as part of their rural…

EPGP - Corporate Strategy - 1 Final Project Report BarclayCard - Business Unit Strategy EPGP 06 – Section A: Group Details: Aditya Mittal EPGP-06-005 Dhirendra Kumar EPGP-06-020 Pradeep Kumar Mishra EPGP-06-045 Ravi Agarwal EPGP-06-057 Table of Content: 1. Executive Summary 2. External Analysis 2.1. Porter 5 Forces 2.2. Pestle 3. Internal Analysis 3.1. SWOT Analysis 3.2. Industry Value Chain 3.3. Core Competence 3.4. US Market Position 3.5. UK Issuing Market Position 3.6. UK…

Managing Director at Grameen Bank, an institution he founded in order to 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.…

Mercy Corps is a humanitarian aid agency whose main goal is help those struck by disaster. Mercy Corps is all over the world. They are stationed in places like South Sudan, Libya, Lebanon, Haiti, Myanmar, India, Uganda, United States, and Syria, just to name a few. (Mercy Corps website CITE) The reasons for needing aid in these countries include natural disasters and man-made disasters. Natural disasters include earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, avalanches, droughts, storms…

simple things. They don’t ask for too many things like others banks that ask for the deed of the house or land. Grameen only asks for a photocopy of your ID, simple things.” Banrural Grameen has impacted many people in Peña Blanca. This type of microfinance helps families and empowers women to bring prosperity to their families. For example, Doña Maria took out a loan for $120 USD and she now runs the village store. Luisa also took out a loan for $120 USD and used the money to buy a chainsaw to…

Some people take for granted the fact that they get three solid meals a day. I for one have never had to worry about where my next meal was coming from or when I will be able to eat again. According to the article FAO Committee on World Food Security Meets on Hunger Challenges states that, in the world today, eight hundred and forty two million people go hungry every day. World hunger is worst in Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America (“Know Your World: Facts About World Hunger & Poverty”)…

1.1. Background of the study 1.1.1. SHG movement in India A number of experiments were made during the last century towards poverty alleviation in the country. The attempts were at finding technical solutions, infrastructural solutions, financial solutions, institutional solutions; skill training solutions, rights based solutions. Large scale projects, large bureaucracies, large scale developmental institutions, programs and schemes were seen as a means which would address poverty in the country…

Identification of the purpose of the decision: Grameenphone is the largest mobile phone operator in the country. It is a joint venture enterprise between Telenor and Grameen Telecom Corporation, a non-profit sister concern of the internationally acclaimed microfinance organization and community development bank Grameen Bank. Telenor, the largest telecommunications company in Norway, owns 55.8% shares of Grameenphone; Grameen Telecom owns 34.2% and the remaining 10% is publicly…