Essays about: "microfinance case study failure"

Found 4 essays containing the words microfinance case study failure.

  1. 1. Is Trust a Necessity? - A case study of group lending within microfinance in the Mbarara district, Uganda

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Karin Göransson; Anna Östergren; [2010]
    Keywords : Uganda; poverty; market failure; microfinance; social capital.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : One reason for poverty is that many people are denied access to financial markets. A new alternative way of providing credit to people living in a vulnerable economic situation is microfinance. Microfinance has often been a success story and one explanation has often been the impact of social capital. READ MORE

  3. 2. 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

  4. 3. Microfinance and poverty alleviation : a case of Obazu Progressive Women Association, Mbieri Imo state - Nigeria

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Nnenna Christiana Irobi; [2008]
    Keywords : microfinance; poverty alleviation; women empowerment; Obazu Progressive Women Association; Nigeria.;

    Abstract : Microfinance, which is one of the tools used in poverty alleviation, has been with us since time immemorial. In Nigeria it is traditionally rooted, while providing credit and financial services to the poor or low-income earners. READ MORE

  5. 4. A SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT OF MICROFINANCE FOR THE EXTREME POOR : A CASE STUDY FROM BANGLADESH

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Sayeed Al Russel; [2007]
    Keywords : microfinance; microcredit; extreme poverty; vulnerability; Bangladesh; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The study tries to look at the impact of microfinance on the lives of the extreme poor people. There are different views on microcredit/microfinance as a powerful development tool regarding its success in developing the lives of the extreme poor and sometimes these views are contradictory. READ MORE