Essays Tagged: "Microfinance"

MFIs

the poor are excluded from access of credit. NGOs are alternative financial institutions like these microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide services to solidarity credit to groups that poor community ...

(3 pages) 30 0 5.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Microcredit: A Lifeline for the Poor

cause the informal sector is the natural environment for rural people (Bouman 1989).A Brief History:Microfinance emerged in the 1970s, as social innovators began to offer financial services to the wor ... only to empower beggars, but to boost their morale and dignity.Micro credit - The Salient Features:Microfinance generally involves the following features:*Small size of loans: The size of the loans i ...

(9 pages) 116 0 4.6 Feb/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

An Evaluation of Microfinance and its Impact on Traditional Financial Lending

Chapter 1: Introduction1.1 IntroductionThe objection of this study is to examine the idea of microfinance and the role that it plays in financial lending. Microcredit is the extension of small ... ualifications of banks and other traditional financial lending institutions. Microcredit is part of microfinance, which is the provision of a wider range of financial services to those in need (Gibbon ...

(42 pages) 77 0 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

AN EVALUATION OF COMMERCIAL BANKS LENDING METHODOLOGIES IN THE PROVISION OF MICROFINANCE SERVICES TO THE INFORMAL SECTOR A CASE STUDY OF ACCESS BANK (LIBERIA) LIMITED (2008-2009)

cerns have been raised as to whether commercial banks lending methodologies are adequate to provide microfinance service to the informal sector. These concerns stand from the fact that there has been ... in social indicators put Liberia near the bottom of the UNDP's Human Development Index (CBL, 2009).Microfinance providers in Liberia can be divided into three main categories:Commercial banksCredit u ...

(64 pages) 1 0 0.0 Mar/2014

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting