Microfinance Delivery – Challenges and Remedies

The Indian Microfinance Experience – Accomplishments and Challenges

Microfinance is gathering momentum to become a major force in India. The self-help group (SHG) model with bank lending to groups of (often) poor women without collateral has become an accepted part of rural finance. The paper discusses the state of SHG-based microfinance in India. With traditionally loss-making rural banks shifting their portfolio away from the rural poor in the post-reform per...

Financing Medicines through Microfinance: Successes and Challenges

Objective: The objective of this paper is to understand the scope of microfinance institutions (MFI) in financing medicine for health seeker of low economic strata people. The various challenges faced by the microfinance services providers in health and medicine in particular. Some Asian countries have been chosen to observe the medicine coverage strategies. This paper will use the data from na...

Microfinance in India : Sectoral Issues and Challenges

The first thing to remember is that in India the history of rural credit, poverty alleviation and microFinance are inextricably interwoven. Any effort to understand one without reference to the others, can only lead to a fragmented understanding. The forces and compulsions that shaped the initiatives in these areas are best understood in context of State and banking policy over time. Thus, for ...

Rural Women and Microfinance in Ghana: Challenges and Prospects

Microfinance Issues and Challenges in the Anglophone Caribbean

This paper describes the microenterprise and microfinance sectors of seven English-speaking Caribbean states, examines main constraints on the development of a well functioning microfinance market in these countries, and highlights the amount, type, and results obtained in microenterprise projects financed by the Inter-American Bank in the last fifteen years. It suggests that English-speaking C...