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Reaching 100 million of India's rural poor with savings and credit by 2008: This is NABARD's goal through its SHG …
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We in the community of microfinance specialists want to help alleviate poverty. We think microfinance is a useful tool … other one the development of a healthy microfinance industry. If poverty reduction is our objective, then microfinance is … likely to be only one of several instruments; in fact it might turn out to be of minor importance. If viable microfinance …
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Only relief achieves short-term poverty reduction, but is ineffective in the long run. Sustainable poverty reduction can only be attained through well-designed long-term development measures. For example, Indonesia is considered one of the most successful countries with regard to poverty...
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Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world; and women in that country are among the poorest of the poor. In the late 1970s, a man performed a miracle there. With a few loans out of his own pocket in 1976, Professor Yunus proved to himself that even the most downtrodden are able to...
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economy, creating a policy environment for the emergence of a demand-driven system of microfinance. Such a system should be … based on the cultural traditions of Laos where community solidarity is strong and women play a crucial role in microfinance …. It is suggested that an evolving Laotian system of microfinance might comprise the following components: (1) A …
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