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THE EFFECT OF MICROFINANCE SERVICES ON POVERTY REDUCTION: ANALYSIS OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN SRI LANKAN PERSPECTIVES

European Journal of Economic and Financial Research

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Title THE EFFECT OF MICROFINANCE SERVICES ON POVERTY REDUCTION: ANALYSIS OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IN SRI LANKAN PERSPECTIVES
 
Creator Kumari, J. A. Prasansha
Azam, S. M. Ferdous
Khalidah, Siti
 
Subject microfinance, poverty reduction, micro credit, micro savings, women empowerment
 
Description Microfinance has been identified as a powerful tool for reducing poverty in the developing counties after won the Nobel Prize for Grameen microcredit program, Bangladesh in 1986. With the rapidly spared of microfinance in the world, the researcher also paid attention to microfinance related studies. There are positive and negative impacts of microfinance on alleviating poverty in the world. This article presents the review of empirical studies that have conducted to identify the impact of microfinance on reducing poverty in the world and Sri Lanka. The review revealed that the majority of existing studies were recognized the positive relationship between microfinance and poverty and most of these studies summarized outcomes that microfinance‘s potential in reducing poverty. Few of them were realized that there were mixed effects of microfinance on poverty reduction. Furthermore, the wealth of empirical evidence available to investigate the relationship of microcredit and micro-savings on poverty alleviation while few studies had identified the impact of all elements of microfinance on poverty reduction. JEL: G2; G21  Article visualizations:
 
Publisher European Journal of Economic and Financial Research
 
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Date 2019-11-14
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJEFR/article/view/654
 
Source European Journal of Economic and Financial Research; Volume 3, Issue 5, 2019
2501 - 3430
2501 - 9430
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJEFR/article/view/654/1236
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2019 J. A. Prasansha Kumari, S. M. Ferdous Azam, Siti Khalidah
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