Microfinance Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

This essay includes detailed analysis and evaluation on policies that could be implemented by the government to reduce absolute poverty, such as subsidising new enterprises, increasing government spending and the use of microfinance schemes is touched upon.

You passed this Milestone 1 1 What is one significance of the DuPont equation? • It allows a company to compare itself to companies in unrelated industries. • It tells a company whether its share price is correctly valued. • It allows a company to increase its stock price. • It tells a company how well it uses investment funds to generate earnings growth. CONCEPT The DuPont Equation 2 Consider the following information: Total current assets $62,301 Deferred income...

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Intro to topic Social capital Microfinance Solving adverse selection Solving moral hazard Solving enforcement - Beasley-Coate Does Microfinance work? Joint liability Group lending Digital money M-Pesa

Full summary of the book The Economics of Microfinance – Second Edition. Written by Beatriz Armendáriz & Jonathan Morduch – 9780262513982

Question Question 1 3 out of 3 points Failure to understand the beliefs and expectations of stakeholders: Answer Causes company's profits to increase in the short run. Causes company's profits to decrease in the short run. Causes the performance-expectations gap to grow larger. Increases the chance of a corporate buy-out. Question 2 3 out of 3 points The emergence of a public issue indicates that: Answer A gap has developed between what stakeholders expect and what an organization is actually ...

Microfinance- Examining its effectiveness in poverty reduction and the consequences of its commercialisation

PRIDE Microfinance has contributed financial assistance in boasting the performance of small scale enterprises in Tanzania and with this regard to my study. It traces its impact on the performance on small scale enterprises at Machinga – Complex, Ilala Municipality, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. However, the study is based on three specific objectives namely: to determine the capacity of PRIDE Microfinance on enhancing their services to small scale enterprises, to determine the performance of smal...

A very comprehensive *1st class* exam notes for the topic credit markets incl topics like interlinked markets and microfinance.

Along with the activities of microfinance, microcredit contributes to the practical effect of poverty reduction. It is an important tool in the fight against the poverty, especially in developing countries (Humle and Mosley, 1996; Shaw, 2004). In spite of that, this conclusion is still a matter continuing to be discussed and increasingly attracted many different opinions of researchers, with each study, the authors have introduced, analyzed different aspects and fields. There are some options th...