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Microcredit and the Discourse of Empowerment: A Case Study in Jinotega, Nicaragua [PDF]

Berkeley Undergraduate Journal, 2013
Microcredit has become an increasingly popular strategy for improving the social, economic, and health status of women in the developing world. NGOs, government agencies and private enterprise have all put forth credit initiatives geared toward “women’s empowerment.” Despite the ubiquity of such programs, there is very little consensus about what it ...
exaly   +4 more sources

Tra locale e globale. Sostenibilità ed empowerment nelle retoriche delle esperienze di microcredito

EtnoAntropologia, 2014
Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize 2006) success in Bangladesh, has made microcredit a globally widespread practice. Since the early nineties, microcredit has been adopted by international development organizations as the privileged strategy not only in ...
Giovanna Guerzoni, Francesca Crivellaro
doaj   +7 more sources

Governance Structure of Microfinance Institutions: A Comparison of Models and Its Implication on Social Impact and Poverty Reduction

İbn Haldun Çalışmaları Dergisi, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to compare three different models of MFIs, namely microfinance banks (MFB), Microcredit programme (MCP) and rural development scheme (RDS), by focusing on their governance structures, and subsequently analyse their ...
Md Nazim Uddin, Hamdino Hamdan, Nor Azizan Che Embi, Salina Kassim, Norma Bt Md Saad   +4 more
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Peran Wanita dalam Pemberdayaan Ekonomi Kecil: Mikro Kredit di Kelurahan Petojo Utara

Binus Business Review, 2010
Women have a responsibility to meet the basic needs of families, when the husband has not been successful in adequately meeting family needs. Micro credit is taken from the method of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM), and applied in Petojo area, Central ...
Holly Deviarti
doaj   +1 more source

Much effort, little impact: the politics of public microcredit programs in Malawi

Cogent Social Sciences
This paper contributes to locating the Malawian dynamics into an emerging discourse that argues that current microcredit programs are ineffective because they have become an instrument for serving international and domestic actors’ interests.
Richard Zidana, Bryson Nkhoma, Victor Kasulo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Interaction Between Microfinance and Household Well-Being: Evidence from the Microcredit Progressive Model for Sustainable Development

Econometrics
Microfinance aims to promote financial inclusion among underprivileged individuals, particularly through progressive microcredit, which enables borrowers to access increasing loan amounts over time.
Ahmad Alqatan, Najoua Talbi, Hasan Behbehani, Samira Ben Belgacem, Muhammad Arslan, Wafaa Sbeiti   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Access to microfinance as a resilience policy to address sustainable development goals: A content analysis. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2022
Gatto A, Sadik-Zada ER.
europepmc   +1 more source

Effects of microfinance and small loans centre on poverty reduction in Wa West District, Ghana. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Sulemana M, Fuseini MN, Abdulai IA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Perceptions of Empowerment : A Minor Field Study of the Concept Discrepancy between the Dominating Development Discourse and the Reality of Women in Microcredit Groups

, 2006
The majority of the poor people in the world today are women. Women are not only more poor men, but also more vulnerable to the effects of poverty. The positive benefits of development do not reach women in equal measures to men, and the proportion of women among the poor is constantly increasing.
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"Innovations" During COVID-19: Microfinance in Bangladesh. [PDF]

Affilia, 2022
Murshid NS, Murshid N.
europepmc   +1 more source