The credit helps me to improve my business: the experiences of two microcredit programs in greater Khartoum.
Ahfad Journal, June, 2006 by El-Fatih, Tayseer; Maccawi, Asia; Schultz, Ulrike
Abstract
All over the developing world, micro credits are seen as an efficient instrument in poverty alleviation. Moreover, it is argued that micro credits will empower women by increasing their contribution to the family income.
In Sudan, since 1992, various attempts have been made on the part of the government and of several NGO's to support women's income earning activities by establishing credit programs for women. Women are organised in groups whereby the group should guarantee the repayment of the individual credits In the article the authors focus not so much on the ...
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