From Urban to Rural: Lessons for Microfinance from Argentina

Schreiner, Mark; Colombet, Héctor Horacio

doi:10.1111/1467-7679.00138

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“…Schreiner and Colombet (2001) share a similar view when they view micro financing as an attempt to improve access to small deposits and loans for poor households neglected by the banks and other formal financial institutions. Rankin (2001) observe that micro credit has become one of the recognized tools of addressing poverty in developing countries.…”

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Microfinance and Women Empowerment in Zimbabwe: A Case of Women Development Fund in Umguza District

Selome¹,

Tshuma²

2014

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The gender dimension of poverty focuses on the dilemma of women, their numerous roles as women and their role in dealing with poverty. In many developing countries, women are discriminated upon in terms of their access to capital means of production; basic needs support, employment opportunities and access to credit facilities. In Zimbabwe, like in many developing countries, empowering women through micro-credit finance is viewed as a means of reducing women poverty, empowering them, reducing their vulnerability and improving their well-being especially in the rural areas. This paper discusses the role of the government of Zimbabwe in empowering rural women through the introduction Women Development Fund (WDF). The study was carried out in Umguza district in Matabeleland North province of Zimbabwe. The study employed mainly purposive sampling and data was collected using questionnaire, key informant interviews, focus group discussion observation and oral history. Research revealed that WDF as a strategy has made a difference in the livelihoods of the recipients through initiation of income generating projects. However the major handicap with WDF is that the amount of money given are small and that it was employed in isolate hence the need to have complementary initiatives such as capacity building, market networking among others.

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Microfinance and Women Empowerment in Zimbabwe: A Case of Women Development Fund in Umguza District

Selome¹,

Tshuma²

2014

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“…very poor self-employed people" [8]. Schreiner and Colombet [9] define microfinance as "the attempt to improve access to small deposits and small loans for poor households neglected by banks". Therefore, the purpose of microfinance is to raise the income of poor people by providing financial services or products of very small amount.…”

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Impact of Microfinance on Women Empowerment: An Empirical Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

CH¹

2015

J Entrepren Organiz Manag

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“…The financial services include such as credit, savings and insurance to poor people living in both urban and rural settings and are unable to obtain such services from the formal financial sector (Schreiner and Colombet, 2001). …”

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Influence of microfinance services on entrepreneurial success of women in Sri Lanka

Bernard¹,

Kévin²,

Khin³

2017

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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This research studies the impact of microfinance services on the entrepreneurial success of users of such services who are mostly women of the lowest income categories. Three microfinance financial services namely, microcredit, micro-savings and micro-insurance have been identified through literature among other non -financial services. In this study, researcher has studied only the influence of financial services of microfinance on entrepreneurial success of women entrepreneurs. An empirical investigation is carried out among a sample of 464 women receiving microfinance services, selected using stratified random sampling technique. The data were collected using a structured questionnaire through face to face interviews. The statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) (version 21) is employed to test the relationships between these microfinance services and entrepreneurial success. The sample of this study captures only the women entrepreneurs from Non-Bank Financial Institutions (NBFIs) registered with the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. The results have discovered that microcredit and micro-savings have a positive relationship with entrepreneurial success of women, while microinsurance has not shown such a relationship. These findings can be helpful to the policy makers in developing the microfinance sector and microfinance institutions to design their service offers. The research identifies some important areas for future research as well.

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From Urban to Rural: Lessons for Microfinance from Argentina

Cited by 53 publications

References 29 publications

Microfinance and Women Empowerment in Zimbabwe: A Case of Women Development Fund in Umguza District

Microfinance and Women Empowerment in Zimbabwe: A Case of Women Development Fund in Umguza District

Impact of Microfinance on Women Empowerment: An Empirical Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Influence of microfinance services on entrepreneurial success of women in Sri Lanka

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