This paper uses a household survey conducted with 107 women in Mukono, Uganda receiving microcredit from BRAC, a globally renowned Microfinance Institution. Firstly, I aim to quantify differences between the residents of the district and the recipients of microcredit. Secondly, I will present descriptive analysis of the economic lifestyles of the BRAC respondents. Finally, I will analyze the re...

Consequences of HIV and AIDS are exponential in Kenya, touching not only the health of those infected, but also depleting socioeconomic resources of entire families. Access to financial services is one of the important ways to protect and build economic resources. Unfortunately, the norm of financial viability discourages microfinance institutions from targeting people severely impacted by HIV ...

The paper reviews, first of all, the Church attitude towards poverty and unemployment, through the Church Social Instruction most representative documents (Laborem exercens, Gaudium et spes, Sollicitudo rei socialis, Centesimus annus). Then, distinguish microcredit concept in developing and developed countries. The microcredit chances in poverty reduction is analysed under the financial system ...

Microcredit scheme is an important poverty alleviation method that facilitates the development of rural communities by creating and developing income-generating activities, especially for low-income women. The present study was aimed to examine the effectiveness of the microcredit fund scheme on the economic empowerment of rural women in Tehran Province, Iran. It was carried out by a survey met...

While most studies on digital financial inclusion highlight its positive aspects, we focus the surveillance phenomenon by investigating role played microcredit agents who operate platforms. We combine concepts of capitalism and platform within process propose a surveilled model that considers human interacting with clients to expand network effects control in dialectic interplay. an instrumenta...

The rapid expansion of microcredit in recent years renders knowledge of its impact on poverty critical. Unfortunately, empirical investigations have been limited by endogeneity issues. This paper suggests a strategy for handling the endogeneity of microcredit borrowing without specifying instrumental variables, allowing for estimation using observational data. The model is identified by an assu...

This study analyzes the participation of Brazilian credit unions in provision microcredit period from 2017 to 2019. The cooperatives belonging four main cooperative systems country were considered: Cresol, Sicoob, Sicredi and Unicred. To meet proposed objective, a documentary research was carried out as survey secondary data official agencies, addition financial accounting reports analyzed inst...

Microfinance is gaining importance as a toolto reduce poverty and promote financial social inclusion. The main goal ofthe paper to analyze the role of microcredit solve problem creditaccess vulnerable people. focuses on direct experience ofpeople who have used living in Bosnia-Herzegovina Hungary toanalyze use these areas. From methodological point ofview, research uses focus groups investigate...