A Proposal for Sustainable Development through Microfinance The following proposal synthesizes from the history of the microfinance industry, particularly its successes and failures, a model for developing a sustainable microfinance initiative. Central to this synthesis is the analysis of the strengths and weaknesses, challenges and opportunities, and characteristics of three well-managed microfinance institutions (“MFIs”): Grameen Bank (“Grameen”), Compartamos, and Friendship Bridge (“Friendship”). These analyses highlight the strategic leverage points – business strategies, organizational structures, financial reporting transparency, performance measurements, and organizational objectives – that determine the success of microfinance initiatives. These strategic leverage points, in turn, shape the framework for developing a prudent microfinance initiative. Microfinance evolved from Muhammad Yunus’s poverty alleviation strategy of microcredit – providing small non-collateral short-term loans to the poor. In short, Yunus founded the microfinance institution Grameen Bank after a successful experiment of providing loans to poor women in Bangladesh revealed the poor are capable of repaying debt obligations at a high rate and can benefit from access to credit. The high repayment rate, approximately 98% according to Yunus, meant that a commercial bank could become financially sustainable while providing loans to the poor as a method of poverty alleviation. Furthermore, access to credit provide the poor with the capability to ascent from poverty. Grameen’s rapid success lead to the popularization of microfinance’s ability to alleviate poverty and, consequently, provides valuable insights in effective microfinance business strategies,... ... middle of paper ... ...that future competition would force Compartamos to reduce rates eventually if it was egregious. Compartamos leveraged its organizational structure to accomplish its goal of growth and financial sustainability. Compartamos’s emphasis on profitability and bank-chartered organizational structure produced high quality reporting, rapid growth, and, through its IPO, provided proof that microfinance could provide meaningful returns to investors while helping the poor. However, Compartamos’s financial success is argued to exploit the poor through high interest rates and mission drift of microfinance. These strengths and weaknesses highlight the limitations on pursuing financial performance over social impact in the industry of microfinance. The history of the microfinance industry provides a framework for understanding why certain MFIs are successful and others are not.
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Microcredit, as described by Isserles, is a development “scam” which destroys the lives of Third World peoples. To her, these small loans falsely identify women, and others, as being worthy of credit, but the agreement’s terms subjugate them to continued financial dependency on microcredit loans. The First world hails this program as a success because aid is just a handout while microloans are a way of creating self-reliance through the market. Isserles states that the market becomes the solution to the “temporary” state of poverty, and this idea is due to a disconnect between the First World and the Third World. Projects claim to support women through finance, yet they refuse to alter the labor and domestic conditions of women across the world.
Women all over the world suffer from poverty and unfair treatment. Almost half of these women in poverty come from Africa, being paid barely a dollar a day. These women can barely feed themselves let alone their family. In order to feed and take care of their family they need micro-loans to either start a business and continue their business. Women are not empowered by micro-loans because of gender-based division of labor, their husbands and men in their family, and the women being shamed for not being able to repay the loan and be in debt.
Microfinance organizations are helping women in developing countries. Women in developing countries are receiving income based on their husbands job without
Does that sound a little dramatic? I thought so, but so are claims that microfinance is the silver bullet for poverty, the kryptonite for hunger, and the solution for one of the most complex issues humanity faces. Every year, the western world donates billions of dollars to microfinance initiatives. American families donate 20, 30, 100 dollars a month, yearning for that feeling of security that they have done something truly impactful for a family in need halfway across the world. However, in reality, it is apparent that although microfinance has its success stories, largely microfinancing has been giving false hope to the hopeless and wasting billions of
According to Jones and Tilley (2003), poor financial management is a serious hurdle when starting a business. Lack of funds and investment capital are the major challenges that have accounted for the high rates of failure among SMEs.
Micro-loaning is designed to break the cycle of poverty by allowing low income residents access to outside funds, which they were previously restricted from. These funds give the opportunity to participate in investments, such as small businesses, and create a steady flow of income. Micro-loaning provides financial services for those who might have low or no income, as well as not having the official documents required when applying for a regular loan. With the goal of low interest and easy application, micro-loaning appears to the most efficient, alternative way of alleviating poverty. To help gain a better understanding of micro-loaning; we will explore the micro-finance history and its organization, poverty and the target subject of this organization, and the benefits and backfires of providing these services.
The lifestyle of people across the world is developing rapidly. As there is a growing concern for people about the lifestyle and way of living, the scope for the microfinance industry is also at a growing pace. A large number of people across the world prefer finance for the purpose of purchase of consumer durables as well as lifestyle products. As the credit card EMI options are more expensive, people prefer NBFCs for the purpose of consumer durable loans. The project done in bajaj finserv explains the role of NBFCs in the consumer durable loans and the procedure undertaken in order to disburse the consumer durable loans.
In the book “Creating a World without Poverty” of Muhammad Yunus, he expresses and addresses an issue concerning on how to solve a problem about the poverty in the society. Muhammad Yunus focuses primarily on the different aspects concerning about human nature, problems with private enterprise, society's perspective concerning poor people, definition of Microfinancing, definition of Social Business, challenges confronted while opening the Grameen Bank, and lastly, the success of the Grameen Organizations.
The Grameen Bank started in 1976 by Muhammad Yunus in Bangladesh, created the microcredit system to alleviate the poor and help to increase the living standards for the various families and communities in Bangladesh. This has been a successful project to help communities better their life. Grameen Bank has modified their bank system to work with the borrowers that come from poor backgrounds. Grameen Bank had to modify the bank system and loan repayment system to justify how well the people could return the loan their borrowed. They have managed to have a balancing profit and impact bottom line, but they concentrate mainly on achieving an impact on the communities they are working with. They have proven to have a huge development impact (Schicks, 2007).
Microcredit can be defined as small loans, or microloans, for people around the world in extreme poverty to help spur entrepreneurship. The issue of microcredit is extremely important in the world’s economy. Poverty alleviation and economic development are the primary goals of microcredit programs, that is why they began in the developing countries of Asia and Latin America, economist Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank in Bangladesh are credited of pioneering this financial innovation (Smith, Thurman, 2007). After acquiring a loan, impoverished people get involved in self-employment projects that help them to start a business and begin generating income and in many cases leave poverty. Microcredit offers loans to poor people without requesting any financial history from them. These loans help to improve the quality of life of individuals and communities through commitment. In recent years, the idea of giving small loans to poor people became the darling of the development world, giving a way to propel even the poorest people into better lives (Jolis, 2011).
In the previous study of David Sloan (2013), Microfinance is providing small loans, primarily to women in poverty, and to who without collateral are unable to receive services from the formal financial sector. Generally, without access to capital, people cannot invest in activities such as existing businesses or new microenterprises, and it significantly reduces the chances of many to emerge from poverty. With the existence of microfinance, poor people can access to those small amounts of capital needed to invest in businesses or simply pay for household expenses. Microfinance is able to contribute to poverty alleviation because customers are able to protect, increase, and diversify their income and accumulate assets, which in the end the economic and social structures can be transformed fundamentally.
Microfinance refers to provision of financial services to poor or low-income clients, including consumers and self-employed.in other words, it refers to a movement that envisions “a world in which as many poor and near-poor households as possible have permanent access to an appropriate range of high quality financial services, it includes not just credit but also savings, insurance, and fund transfers.”. Promoter’s microfinance generally believes that such access will help poor people out of poverty.
Operating self-sufficiency is a percentage (%), which indicates whether or not enough revenue has been earned to cover the Microfinance Institution's (MFI's) total costs – operational expenses, loan loss provisions and financial