Verbreitete Armut ist nach wie vor eines der zentralen Probleme der arabischen Entwicklungsländer, das nicht nur auf …, lack the necessary will to alleviate poverty or to re-distribute income vertically. They are much more concerned about …

electricity industry has indeed lessen poverty levels in urban Bolivia by making this utility more accessible to larger segments …This paper takes stock with the results of utility privatization in Bolivia. This paper deals with the process of … is mostly interested in exploring whether the reformation of this industry contributed to lessen poverty levels and …

countries after an aggregate income shock. The analysis is based on a data set in which the customer data of the microfinance … microfinance institution. The results support the hypothesis that especially transaction lending contributes to the problem of …

borrowing groups of the microfinance institutions Constanta (Georgia) and FORA (Russia), this study describes to what extent … individual lending mechanism - based on the experience of 130 borrowers of the Microfinance Bank of Georgia – shows that there …

credit has liberated the women from poverty and enhanced their empowerment to some extent, it has been seen that, many women …Micro credit or extending small loans for income generating activities to the poor, particularly women in predominantly … other purposes. It is also seen that women loss direct control of the loan taken in their name. But very little has been …

quality of life. This program is regarded as a very exciting anti-poverty tool for the poorest, especially for women. This … extends small loans to poor people, mainly women, for self-employment activities thus allowing clients to achieve a better … further analyses the impact of microcredit on women?s empowerment. Primary data has been collected from the borrowers of two …

trials of microfinance offerings (Morduch 1998; Ferrari 2008; Hoque 2008). Financial dealings within this context are known … to be complex (Matin, Hulme et al. 1999; Rutherford 2002) and, despite the rapid growth of microfinance, these financial …