recent years microfinance has emerged as an important instrument to relieve poverty in the developing countries. Today there … countries where the proportion of people in poverty is high. The existing microfinance in Nigeria serves less than 1 million …Today widespread poverty is one of the major problems of mankind and its alleviation one of her major agendas. In …

having a very low cost structure – making it lucrative for banks to target the rural poor. Poverty is an insidious problem in … states, the issue is even more pressing. High levels of poverty lead to high rates of migration towards the North. Augmented …

In this article, the author has discussed that in Pakistan, EEO is rather an issue of education than legislation or …

literature on IR in Islam including a reading of the principal sources of Islam (the Qur'an and the Hadith), the paper identifies …. In its second half, the paper offers a case study of IR in Pakistan. The study suggests that the two divergent Islamic … approaches to IR may be seen as having ambiguous implications for labor laws and trade unions in Pakistan (and possibly other …

study has been to estimate the efficiency of microfinance institutions in Pakistan. Non parametric Data Envelopment analysis …Microfinance collectively refers to the supply of loans, savings accounts, and other basic financial services like … (Morduch J. 1999). Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are special financial institutions. They have both a social nature and a …

This article presents a practical methodology to monitor poverty changes among microfinance clients using available … microfinance practitioners to verify whether their clients are moving out of poverty and validate management strategies aiming to … household panel data. As an example, it presents an estimation of the net number of people that rose above the $1/day poverty …

The Pakistan's Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Draft Medium Term Development Framework recognize that the most … played a vital if not a decisive role in influencing poverty levels in Pakistan. The second part of the paper reviews the … effective means of reducing poverty is through the creation of productive and remunerative employment. This paper examines how …

This paper investigates the role of public expenditures and general government debt in microfinance performance. Our … panel regression applied to the data of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean confirms the …, are characterized by higher rate of social efficiency. The positive influence on microfinance is besides public finance …

The objective of fight against poverty was at the origin of the creation of the institutions of microfinance (IMF … really? What do the impact studies learn on the contribution from the microfinance to the poverty reduction in the developing …. Today, certain authors underline the limits of the microfinance and question its impact on the development. What happens …