Microcredit tackles both poverty and birthrate

Microcredit and Poverty Alleviation : Can microcredit close the deal ?

This paper explores the relationship between microcredit and poverty reduction. To investigate this question, we posit a bare-bone, household model that outlines the economic environment within which various types of family microenterprises operate. It highlights a number of issues that impinge on household earnings such as the nature of the labour market, technology, product demand and entrepr...

The Lebanese Schism ? Understanding Localities of Microcredit , Poverty , and Politics

The widespread popularity of microfinance as a "win-win" solution to global poverty alleviation has significantly limited debate and dialogue around contesting viewpoints, program structures, and implementation norms. The present microcredit industry in Lebanon offers an authoritative space for practitioners to explore a differing microcredit model as implemented by a Hezbollah affiliated NGO, ...

The potential of zakat scheme as an alternative of microcredit to alleviate poverty in Bangladesh

This study assesses the effectiveness of Zakat as an alternative to microcredit in alleviating poverty in Bangladesh. Through the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) techniques, this study reveals that the impact of zakat scheme has proven higher than microcredit programs. Besides, this study also discloses that zakat scheme significantly increases both income and expenditure of the recipients in c...

The Birthrate of Magnetars

Magnetars, neutron stars with ultra strong magnetic fields (B ∼ 10−10G), manifest their exotic nature in the form of soft gamma-ray repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars. This study estimates the birthrate of magnetars to be ∼ 0.22 per century with a galactic population comprising of ∼17 objects. A population synthesis was carried out based on the five anomalous X-ray pulsars detected in the RO...

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