A STUDY OF ROLE OF MICROFINANCE IN POVERTY REDUCTION
PROF. (DR.) RAJESH K. YADAV1,Ms.MEETA RAGHUVANSHI2
1Professor & Director, School of Management, JagranLakecity University, Bhopal (M.P.)
2Research Scholar, Faculty of Management, Barkatullah University, Bhopal (M.P.)
Email -: drrajeshkyadav@jlu.edu.in, raghuvansh_meet@yahoo.co.in 1. ABSTRACT
In an India where 70 per cent of its population exists in rural area and 60 per cent depend on agriculture (according to the World Bank reports), micro-finance can play a very important role in providing financial services to the poor and low income individuals. The present paper highlights the microfinance & evaluates the position of micro-finance. The concept of microfinance is not new
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This include the ‘susus’ of Ghana, ‘chit funds’ in India, ‘tandas’ in Mexico, ‘arisan’ in Indonesia, ‘cheetu’ in Sri Lanka, ‘tontines’ in West Africa and ‘pasanaku’ in Bolivia. In 1700s, the Irish author Jonathan Swift initiated the earliest form of modern MFIs—the Irish loan fund system. The Irish loan fund system was designed to provide small uncollateralized loans to rural poor. In 1800, various other formal institutions began to emerge in Europe in the forms of people’s banks, credit unions and savings and credit co-operatives. Of these, the credit unions developed by Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen gained wide acclaim in Europe and other North American States, in relieving the rural poor from the clutches of usurious moneylenders. In 1895 people’s banks became popular in Indonesia, and in 1900 the idea spread to Latin …show more content…
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