abstract:the general perception of islamic finance is that it prohibits the practice of paying and receiving interest, but islamicfinance is much broader than interest rate prohibition. islamic financial services can be viewed as a set of financialservices which are diversified based on the needs of society.since in the iranian economy most of the enterprises are micro and/or small, micro finan...

The main objective of the study is to assess the impact of micro-credit on poverty reduction . The study was conducted among recipients of microcredit provided by both Grameen Bank and the BRDB in Manikganj Sadar Upazila of Manikganj district and Sagalnaiya Upazila of Feni district. The study reveals that Grameen Bank and BRDB covered higher proportion of landless households compared to control...

Bangladesh has gained substantial experience in using micro credit for reducing poverty since 1980s. NGOs first adopted micro credit approach basically to empower the women attempting at generating self employment and self reliance. The government followed the policy to achieve same objectives. NGOs and GOs have launched micro credit based programs to alleviate urban poverty, especially in the ...

the study examined the effect of women led self help group on micro-financing of farms in isuikwuato local government area of abia state, nigeria. purposive and multistage random sampling technique was employed for collecting data from one hundred and twenty (120) women farmers in women led self help group by using structured interview schedule. the data were analyzed using descriptive statisti...

Academic and political discussions about micro-finance have been found lacking in predictive power, because they are based on orthodox economic theory, which does not properly comprehend the social components of credit. I take a better approach, utilizing credit theory--specifically, Ingham's explication of how the nature of money as credit leads to social inequality. I also expound the perspec...

Micro financing is providing financial services and resources for low-income people to improve their financial situation. In many less developed countries, providing these services for low-income classes was next to impossible due to high interest rates and heavy collaterals and guarantees that banks and other credit institutions demand. Micro financing was used since 1960s as a fundamenta...

In Bangladesh, micro credit programs have positive socioeconomic impact on the rural women borrowers. However, it is perceived that the micro credit programs help the rural women borrowers to survive only and do not help them to develop entrepreneurial capabilities. Hence, this paper aims at identifying the factors related to the development of entrepreneurship among the rural women borrowers t...

Micro enterprise is extremely important for the development of entrepreneurs, help human development, poverty reduction and employment generation both in rural and urban areas. The specific objective underlies in the provision of resource allocation, infusion of vital potent promoting microenterprise and to peruse socioeconomic patronization for development of the microenterprise. Secondary dat...