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This study focused on the entrepreneurial characteristics of the marginal poor of Bangladesh. From the target group, 21 families have been taken as samples and three potential inputs have been supplied to the sample families in order to carry the study. The inputs were small business capital, indigenous technology, and training to build up moral capacity. Over five years, the impact of inputs on the growth of the economy of the marginal poor was observed. This paper argues that only business capital cannot create a sustainable environment.

Agriculture, or more specifically, the rural sector, occupies an important place in the economy of Bangladesh. Unfortunately, the majority of rural people live below the poverty line. Due to the dearth of required employment opportunities a bulk of the labor force is either unemployed or without work.

Qard Hasan is one of the most powerful benevolent sectors and tools for alleviating poverty in Islamic Economics. Unlike

The aim of this paper is to shed new light on the as yet unsolved question of whether competition is a good or bad model for microfinance markets. We empirically analyzed how the degree of competition affects the achievements of development projects promoting micro-credit. These projects usually provide subsidies to Microfinance institutions (MFIs) for capacity and institution building with a dual objective: The MFIs should be enabled to extend its loan supply for MSE (outreach to the target group) while at the same time aiming at cost coverage and profitability (financial sustainability).

Islamic microfinance is an intervention-based social intermediation in which poor people can mobilize their savings, which are linked with Islamic investment, and ideally become self-employed. It results in building social capital. The present study attempts to understand the growth of Islamic microfinance and how the Islamic microfinance sector and social capital can contribute to the challenge of poverty alleviation.

The aim of this study is to analyze the sustainability of Islamic microfinancing for developing micro-enterprises (MEs). We use the example of Baitul Mal Wat Tamwil (BMT), an Islamic microfinance institution in Indonesia. Two approaches will be used to explore sustainability: data envelopment analysis (DEA) and level of outreach. Firstly, the results indicate, generally, that the efficiency of BMTs is relatively low.

The provision of microfinance is a high-cost operation because of its target clients. They are in need, not only of financing, but of education, training, and direct guidance for preparing their first investment plans/steps, health care, child care, psychological re-habilitation and immediate provision of essential consumer goods.

This paper attempts to identify the problems of resource utilization of selected Muslim funds of Northern India.

In most developing countries of the world, financing micro-enterprises (microfinancing) is considered a “new paradigm” for bringing about development and alleviating poverty. Bangladesh is one of the biggest

The Microcredit approach has proven to be a versatile, effective and efficient alternative for poverty alleviation. Unfortunately, the cost of running such programs is high. This paper proposes a model that highlights the use of