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1. 1. Entrepreneurship by Poor - A study of entrepreneurship among the poor in less developed countries

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Mathias Stillfors; [2013]
   Keywords : microcredit; institution; education; poor; Entreprenurship; finance; SBC; China; property rights; free market; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The importance of entrepreneurship in our society is the way it stimulate the markets through alertness to opportunities, and being creational of new opportunity-ideas. However, entrepreneurship is usually constrained by normative, regulative and cognitive mechanisms that enforces and forms the basis on which the entrepreneur operates. READ MORE

3. 2. Sustainable Microfinance

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap

   Author : Oluwafunmilayo Akinosi; Daniel Nordlund; Alejandro Turbay; [2011]
   Keywords : Ecological Considerations; FSSD; Poverty Alleviation; Microfinance Institutions; Socioeconomic Missions; Sustainable Development;

   Abstract : Microfinance offers one way to combat poverty by providing access to credit and financial services to low-income borrowers. We argue that the interconnectedness of the socioeconomic and ecological system as well as the reliance on ecosystem services make it important to provide microcredit from a full sustainability perspective. READ MORE

4. 3. Client Information Needs of MFIs : A Case Study of ASA Bangladesh

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för management

   Author : Juber Ahmed; [2010]
   Keywords : Client; Information; Microfinance; Microcredit; Savings; Client Assessment; Client Assessment Tools; MIS; Microfinance Institution; NGO; Bangladesh; ASA; Client Intelligence ;

   Abstract : Abstract Title: Client Information Needs of MFIs: A Case Study of ASA Bangladesh Author: Juber Ahmed Academic Advisor: Dr. Klaus Solberg Søilen Department: School of Management, Blekinge Institute of Technology Course: Master Thesis in Business Administration Purpose: To enrich the knowledge base of client’s needs of financial services and assessing the tools MFIs used to collect clients’ information and how they utilized the information for developing new products and services or modifying existing products and services or their terms and conditions to meet the needs of financial services of their clientele. READ MORE

5. 4. HOW DO MFIs REINVENT THEIR BUSINESS MODEL IN ORDER TO BE SUSTAINABLE? THE CASE OF GRAMEEN BANK TRANSFORMATION TO GRAMEEN II

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för management

   Author : Achmad Herry Herfandy; Arman Uddowla; Arif Muhammad; [2009]
   Keywords : Microfinance; Microcredit; Micro Finance Institution; Sustainability; Business Process Reengineering BPR ; Grameen Bank.;

   Abstract : Microfinance Institutions (MFI) is an organization that provides financial services (microcredit, saving schemes, etc.) to the poor who are considered as ‘not bankable’. READ MORE

6. 5. Do Self-Sustainable MFI:s help alleviate relative poverty?

   University essay from Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Rasmus Stenbäcken; [2006]
   Keywords : Micro finance; MFI; Difference-in-differences; Principal component analysis; Ecuador.;

   Abstract : The subject of this paper is microfinance and the question: Do self-sustainable MFI:s alleviate poverty?. A MFI is a micro financial institution, a regular bank or a NGO that has transformed into a licensed financial institutions, focused on microenterprises. To answer the question data has been gathered in Ecuador, South America. READ MORE