Microcredit is regarded as a tool for poverty alleviation. A stereotyped delivery system is designed and used for promoting and serving survival and subsistence level economic activities, particularly for poor female clients. In Bangladesh its success has raised social expectations as to its...

Calculated under the framework of economic-profit counting, the productivity of microcredit in Bangladesh is found very low. In this survey about 48% of the borrowers had to compromise their normal wages for self-employed labor to be able to pay the high interest for the credit. Similarly its...

This study examines the micro enterprises of industrial sectors that receive Kredit Usaha Rakyat (People's Business Credit/KUR) or Commercial Credit (KK) in seven cities in East Java. Firstly, this study aims to measure the technical efficiency of micro enterprises in the industrial sector in...

It has been widely accepted that economic globalization is inevitable, and that globalization plays an increasingly important role in determining relative economic growth among nations. However, considerable studies have addressed that increase in globalization is directly or indirectly...

This paper considers the issue of water security and food security for the poor in the context of sustainable livelihoods. The need to improve the contribution of water management to poverty alleviation means that there is a need for actions that make water more accessible to poor people....

It seems to have been apparent in developing nations that economic growth and urbanization are always interrelated. Malaysia's rapid economic growth has also resulted in a considerable growth of urbanization. As gleaned from the other side of the coin, the process of such urbanization had...