Essays about: "Microcredit and poverty reduction"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Microcredit and poverty reduction.

  1. 1. Development Initiatives’ Impact on Women’s Empowerment : A Field Study on a Business Training and Microcredit Program in Kenya

    University essay from KTH/Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.)

    Author : Josefin Grafford; Josefin Hansson; [2020]
    Keywords : Women’s empowerment; Development; Development initiatives; Poverty alleviation; Microcredit; Business training; Self-help groups; Gender inequality; Feminist theory; Kenya; Kvinnors egenmakt; Utveckling; Utvecklingsinitiativ; Fattigdomsbekämpning; Mikrokredit; Entreprenörskapsutbildning; Självhjälpsgrupper; Ojämställdhet; Feministisk teori; Kenya;

    Abstract : The primary goal of development organizations is poverty reduction, but their initiatives have in recent years also been recognized as a potential tool in empowering women and raising their status. Previous knowledge on the topic is largely based in an understanding of empowerment that seems to miss or overlook limitations and impacts of initiatives which authors with a more feminist view on empowerment address. READ MORE

  3. 2. Inequality and Poverty Reduction. An analysis and comparison of World Bank projects implementing Microcredits and Conditional Cash Transfers in Bangladesh.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

    Author : Claudia Simone Mallschützke; [2015]
    Keywords : inequality; conditional cash transfers; microcredit; Bangladesh; World Bank; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) and microcredits are popular within the development community as poverty reduction instruments. Amartya Sen has proposed a holistic approach to development, poverty and inequality that does not see an increase in income as the aim of development. READ MORE

  4. 3. Poverty reduction and sustainability of rural livelihoods through microfinance institutions. : A case of BRAC Microfinance, Kakondo sub-county Rakai district Uganda.

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Doreen Nakiyimba; [2014]
    Keywords : Microfinance; poverty alleviation; sustainable livelihoods.;

    Abstract : Microfinance is perceived to be one of the poverty alleviation mechanisms in poor countries today. This study was set out to find out what impact microfinance has on the livelihoods of women in Kakondo sub-county, Rakai district in Uganda. READ MORE

  5. 4. Rural Member-Based Microfinance Institutions : A field study assessing the impacts of SACCOS and VICOBA in Babati district, Tanzania

    University essay from Institutionen för livsvetenskaper

    Author : Marie Ahlén; [2012]
    Keywords : community-based microfinance; microcredit; poverty reduction; obstacles; cooperative.;

    Abstract : Microfinance has spread rapidly since the 1970s and gained a lot of international attention. Advocates mean it is a good way to reduce poverty, but still there is no consensus within the research about the impacts of microfinance and its contribution to poverty reduction. READ MORE

  6. 5. Microfinance – a positive or a negative impact on the women in the rural Bangladesh?

    University essay from Avdelningen för ekonomi; Akademin för utbildning och ekonomi

    Author : Marlene Ruth; Elham Nikkhah; [2011]
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    Abstract : Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze if the Grameen Banks Microfinance program has a positive or negative impact of the women in the rural Bangladesh. With our field study we want to get our own insight into the how Grameen Banks organization works. READ MORE