KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS THE USE OF STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AS A MEANS OF ACHIEVING CORPORATE OBJECTIVE IN THE MICROFINANCE SECTOR. (A CASE STUDY OF SOME SELECTED MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS) BY: ACKON BEATRICE APRAKU ESTHER ASABEA OPPONG-SEKUM KINGSLEY A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
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factors in determining the success of a microfinance operation. This differs from traditional banking in that the target market is much more destitute, the goal is more socially oriented, and the focus of the funded projects must be more closely analyzed for microfinance operations. 2. At the lower level, microfinance lending rates must compete with those offered by the “curb market”, which consists of loan sharks. Proceeding up the ladder of a microfinance operation, one can expect that efficiencies
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Grameen Bank, Bangladesh Need/Objective: To empower the poor there is a need for fair access to finance. Since conventional banking makes lending decisions based on a borrower's existing assets (collateral), those who have nothing get nothing. 50 percent of the population of Bangladesh lives on less than USD 1 per day. If they needed money, they traditionally had to turn to local money lenders who charged extremely high interest rates and frequently entrapped the borrowers in a spiral of debt. Broadly
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attempts to graphically present a simplified version of the activities of a microfinance institution (MFI) with a view to facilitating our understanding of its activities and role in economic development, creating an enabling environment for MFIs to work, promoting and fostering sustainable development of microfinance institutions and comprehending the need and ways to regulate them. The main function of a microfinance institution is to provide sustainable financial services mainly to the small
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of more than $3 billion. This paper explores Grameen Bank’s origins, structure, culture, performance and efforts to expand and broaden the microfinance agenda. The authors evaluate Grameen’s success in implementing Yunus’s vision in the light of various challenges and conclude that the short-run effects of microcredit have been positive and that microfinance will continue to make important contributions to poverty reduction. Admittedly, an assessment of Grameen solely in terms of financial viability—that
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but with the on-going policy of the Federal Government through the Central Bank of Nigeria on micro-financing the macroeconomic objective of reduced unemployment, if not full employment will become a reality in Nigeria. The microfinance policy has empowered the many microfinance institutions to provide credit to the informal sector. We therefore advise that the Nigerian Government and all relevant stakeholders continue in their quest towards reducing unemployment while they give their undivided support
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Islamic Economic Studies Vol.9, No. 2, March 2002 FINANCING MICROENTERPRISES: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF ISLAMIC MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS HABIB AHMED ∗ While conventional microfinance institutions (MFIs) have expanded their operations in the last two decades, poverty-focused MFIs based on Islamic principles are lagging behind. This paper provides the theoretical basis, operational framework, and empirical support for the establishment of Islamic MFIs. After critically evaluating the conventional
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Social entrepreneurship is a process of combining social cause with business approach and innovations. Social entrepreneurs are individual entrepreneurs who find innovative, efficient and effective methods of serving a social purpose such as reduce unemployment, reduce pollution, toxicity and reducing the inequality between the rich and the poor. Instead of leaving social issues to government or big Corporations, social entrepreneurs find the things that are not working and solve the problem by
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“Yunus has changed, not his followers”. This is with this sentence that Grameen Koota’s managers synthetized the model of their microfinance organisation. Indeed, they argued right from the beginning that Grameen Koota was strictly following the Grameen methodology, as it had been conceived in its early days. Grameen Koota was then born to deliver, in a cost-effective and sustainable manner, affordable credit to the poor in Bangalore, making it possible for them to borrow money without being required
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| Success Factors Of “Bkash” Needs can bring Success | green Business School | 8/9/15 | Business Communication | | | Success Factors Of “Bkash” Needs can bring Success | green Business School | 8/9/15 | Business Communication | | Report on- Success Factors of “Bkash” Course Name- Business Communication Course Code- BUS-202 Prepared For- Zeeshan Kingshuk Huq Guest Faculty Green Business School Prepared by- SL | GROUP MEMBERS | ID | 1 | Md. Rayhan Uddin
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