micro finance aim to reduce poverty

1. Reducing poverty why ??
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2. MDGs
• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

4. • The United Nations Millennium
Development Goals are eight goals that
all 191 UN member states have agreed to
try to achieve by the year 2015

5. • The United Nations Millennium Declaration,
signed in September 2000 commits world
leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease,
illiteracy, environmental degradation, and
discrimination against women

6. • The MDGs are derived from this Declaration,
and all have specific targets and indicators.

7. The Eight Millennium Development Goals are:
• to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger;
• to achieve universal primary education;
• to promote gender equality and empower
women;
• to reduce child mortality;
• to improve maternal health;
• to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases;
• to ensure environmental sustainability; and
• to develop a global partnership for development.

8. Poverty
• It is a state of human being exclusion from
material basic needs gratification. It is
represented in the following:

9. 1- Reduction of food consumption qualitatively
and quantitatively (Malnutrition).

10. Unavailability of appropriate housing
and cloths.

11. Difficulty of gaining potable water.

12. Poor health status and education

13. Exclusion from obtaining basic goods and
other physical assets.

14. Inability to faceing disease, disability, unemployment,
disasters and crises

15. Types of poverty
• The domain: material and non-material poverty.
• The out reach : individual and group poverty.
• The period of time: temporary poverty (shock),
seasonal poverty and permanent poverty.
• Measurement: comparative and outright poverty.
• Location: rural and urban poverty.
• Effects on a specific category in the society: women,
older and children poverty

16. Factors of poverty
• economic, social, politic, cultural and
environmental factors.

17. Case study

28. What is the poverty vicious circle?
• Poverty vicious circle means staying
continuously in a regressive living standard
resulting from an overlapping reasons and
consequences making the overcoming of this
circle a very tough matter. It is shown in

29. What is the poverty vicious circle?
Poverty
Inability to
face basic
need
Low
productivity
Financial
exclusion
Lose asset

30. How to breakdown the poverty vicious circle?
The scientific experiments show two strategies
to break it:
First: obtaining productive assets:
Second: Education:

31. First: obtaining productive assets:
Productive assets can be obtained through:
• Savings gathering.
• Donations and supply.
• Small loans

32. Second: Education:
Education does not only pave the way for
achieving a higher income, but also it enables
the family members to better and rationally
manage its financial resources. But at the
same time, the enrollment of the poor
families' sons in the schools involves a high
cost in the following:

33. • Study fees and stationery costs.
• Alternative opportunity cost represented in
wasted income resulting from the abandoning
of income-generating activities in order to
study.

34. Braking the Poverty Vicious Circle
poverty
Inability to
face basic
need
Expand
activity
Increase
income
Educate
children