to underline the positive corollary existing between the targeting of women by microfinance programs, on the one hand …The present paper aims to adduce succinctly the reasons and arguments sustaining female-targeting microfinance programs …, predominantly because of their capacity of offering an effective and operational tool against poverty. The herewith paper basically …

In Ethiopia, changes in the prices of teff, wheat and maize tend to affect more the people at the higher income … relative price of food tends to benefit rural households in Ethiopia, though the exact magnitude needs to be investigated …

microfinance in poverty alleviation efforts in Bangladesh and how this role can be enhanced. It was intended to establish and … recommend Islamic microfinance and its principles that could raise poverty reduction and economic development in the country …. Especially, this paper tries to answer the following questions: Can Islamic microfinance help alleviate poverty? Should Islamic …

microfinance has strong capacity to drive economic growth and poverty reduction in Eritrea. …The poverty levels in Eritrea are alarming. In the light of the escalating nature of poverty, there is an urgent need … for a poverty alleviation initiative to reduce miseries of the majority of the poor. An attempt is made in this paper to …

Is it possible for microfinance institutions to simultaneously pursue profits and poverty reduction? This study … the bank also had an impact on economic or social measures of poverty, including empowerment of poor women, or income … explores this question by analyzing the impact of Khushhali Bank, the largest retail microfinance bank in Pakistan. Khushhali …

reinforcement of the microfinance mechanism to propagate a soothing trend for poverty reduction and economic growth. … economic development in Nigeria. Based on empirical study, it has been observed that poverty is multifaceted and its … which could improve their lives. For this study, our theoretical a priori expectation is that provision of microfinance …

for poverty reduction and rural development. The data and information were generated from combined descriptive and field …. The application of microcredit to other poverty groups who actually need subsidies and social safety nets would be a … Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). Its graduated strategy for helping the poor should be applied to the poverty pyramid by …

This paper shows that government of India supported microfinance programme under SGSY scheme is partially effective to … reduce poverty of the rural households. Few expansion of National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme plays here the supportive … role. Taking the help of Natural Experiment it is also proved that microfinance programme is also able to reduce …

accumulating on the impact of microfinance activities on poverty reduction. In particular we ask what is the evidence on three … poverty on a permanent basis; (2) the extent to which microfinance programs reach only the better-off amongst the poor … organizations and countries and in turn a vast number studies have attempted to assess the outreach and poverty impact of such …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are often seen by aid practitioners as a manifestly effective means of improving the … have been carried out more “rigorously”, but in both regions the evidence that microfinance is reaching the core poor is …