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What is the story of microfinance? How did it started? What were the last words of Professor Younus at the time when he was leaving Grameen Bank? What are the dynamics of microfinance in pakistan?
This is a presentation made to a gathering of journalists on October 1, 2011 to provide them with basic information about microfinance.
This presentation also includes a slide on different websites which can be used as resources by those who intend to find more material on microfinance.
Micro financing is a very popular form of financing for rural poor people, especially for women. Through micro financing many rural women changed their life. They change their living standard, children health, children education and so on. The aim of this research work is to examine the role of microcredit in income generating activities of women and its impact on their socio-economic empowerment. The target population of the research was those sample both men and women who had availed microcredit facilities from some microcredit providing institutions or organizations in district Noakhali, Bangladesh. During this research, we also include some male sample to compare percentage of self-employment. Survey method was used as techniques of data collection. The majority of population was illiterate or semi-literate, so interview schedule was used as a tool of data collection. We have collected information of 109 sample including both male and female. But majority are female. Descriptive as well as non parametric test was used for data analysis. The results showed that most of the females who availed the facility of microcredit finally got socioeconomic empowerment through acquiring the self esteem, business skills, confidence level, decision making power, etc. The findings of the research showed that microcredit has significant impact on the up lift of socio-economic empowerment of the borrowers in district Noakhali and at the end of the research, some recommendations is given in this regards.
Role of micro credit in poverty alleviationguest8b8cd892
Executive Summary
The study tries to look at the impact of micro credit on the lives of the poor people. There are different views on micro credit as a powerful development tool regarding its success in developing the lives of the poor and some times these views are contradictory. However poverty is a global issue; it is a problem that even the wealthiest nation is facing. In this scenario country like Pakistan is facing a great challenge to alleviate or reduce poverty because poverty is becoming cause of many problems like suicides, illiteracy, unemployment, diseases like depression, stress etc. In order to control these diseases first we have to control poverty. At government level and also at international level many strategies are made every day to control poverty. But now Dr. Younis gave a formula of micro credit that successfully worked in Bangladesh and is now replicated all over the world and also in Pakistan so; the purpose of the study was to observe that what role micro credit plays in Pakistan in poverty alleviation.
The study was conducted in four urban slum areas of Rawal pindi and Islamabad that are Muslim Colony, Dhok Kala Khan, Tehmaspabad and Shakrial. Those people are targeted who have taken micro credit so that the comparison of living standard before and after use of micro credit can be made and hence it can be seen that, if there is any improvement in their living standard after using micro credit or not. The study was based on questionnaires which were distributed after translating it into Urdu so that respondents can easily understand it and fill it accordingly. Sample for this survey was 200 with 50 respondents per area. The dependent variable taken in this study is poverty reduction where as independent variable is micro credit and moderating variable is political environment.
Some of the factors that show poverty reduction are Training and education, clean water and hygienic environment, nutrition and adequate food, accommodation, income and savings.
Overall we can say that training and education, clean water and hygienic environment, nutrition and adequate food, accommodation, income and savings are important factors of poverty reduction. Because when a person has training and education he can improve his living standard, if a person has clean drinking water and adequate food he will be healthy and can earn in a better way for his family, if his accommodation is better and enough for family members and strong enough for natural disasters he can live in a better way. And obviously if his earning is good and enough for family he can also provide recreational activities to his children and can also afford uncertain expenses such as sudden guest etc and can also do savings for future, then all these things points towards a good life, a life with a good living standard and a life above poverty line. So; all above mentioned factors plays an important role in poverty reduction.
From data analysis it is concluded that the micro credit program is effective in giving un employed people employment such as taxi driver, shop keeper etc and to meet short term needs such as return debt taken from some one else, paying fee, operation, treatment of disease etc. Mostly borrowers of Muslim colony, Dhok Kala Khan, Shakrial and Tehmaspabad have used micro credit to purchase taxi, sewing machine and opening small shop and improving accommodation.
But micro credit system is not the perfect one; it is not a replacement for jobs that are not there and skills that do not exist. Important thing is to make them financially stable, to bring them out of the poverty line and to make them able to sustain their position and improve living condition instead of returning back to the poverty line. It can be done in this way that micro credit institutions can make contract with driving centers that can giving training to those people who don’t know driving on half rate, contracts with boutiques can be made, contracts wit
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What is the story of microfinance? How did it started? What were the last words of Professor Younus at the time when he was leaving Grameen Bank? What are the dynamics of microfinance in pakistan?
This is a presentation made to a gathering of journalists on October 1, 2011 to provide them with basic information about microfinance.
This presentation also includes a slide on different websites which can be used as resources by those who intend to find more material on microfinance.
Micro financing is a very popular form of financing for rural poor people, especially for women. Through micro financing many rural women changed their life. They change their living standard, children health, children education and so on. The aim of this research work is to examine the role of microcredit in income generating activities of women and its impact on their socio-economic empowerment. The target population of the research was those sample both men and women who had availed microcredit facilities from some microcredit providing institutions or organizations in district Noakhali, Bangladesh. During this research, we also include some male sample to compare percentage of self-employment. Survey method was used as techniques of data collection. The majority of population was illiterate or semi-literate, so interview schedule was used as a tool of data collection. We have collected information of 109 sample including both male and female. But majority are female. Descriptive as well as non parametric test was used for data analysis. The results showed that most of the females who availed the facility of microcredit finally got socioeconomic empowerment through acquiring the self esteem, business skills, confidence level, decision making power, etc. The findings of the research showed that microcredit has significant impact on the up lift of socio-economic empowerment of the borrowers in district Noakhali and at the end of the research, some recommendations is given in this regards.
Role of micro credit in poverty alleviationguest8b8cd892
Executive Summary
The study tries to look at the impact of micro credit on the lives of the poor people. There are different views on micro credit as a powerful development tool regarding its success in developing the lives of the poor and some times these views are contradictory. However poverty is a global issue; it is a problem that even the wealthiest nation is facing. In this scenario country like Pakistan is facing a great challenge to alleviate or reduce poverty because poverty is becoming cause of many problems like suicides, illiteracy, unemployment, diseases like depression, stress etc. In order to control these diseases first we have to control poverty. At government level and also at international level many strategies are made every day to control poverty. But now Dr. Younis gave a formula of micro credit that successfully worked in Bangladesh and is now replicated all over the world and also in Pakistan so; the purpose of the study was to observe that what role micro credit plays in Pakistan in poverty alleviation.
The study was conducted in four urban slum areas of Rawal pindi and Islamabad that are Muslim Colony, Dhok Kala Khan, Tehmaspabad and Shakrial. Those people are targeted who have taken micro credit so that the comparison of living standard before and after use of micro credit can be made and hence it can be seen that, if there is any improvement in their living standard after using micro credit or not. The study was based on questionnaires which were distributed after translating it into Urdu so that respondents can easily understand it and fill it accordingly. Sample for this survey was 200 with 50 respondents per area. The dependent variable taken in this study is poverty reduction where as independent variable is micro credit and moderating variable is political environment.
Some of the factors that show poverty reduction are Training and education, clean water and hygienic environment, nutrition and adequate food, accommodation, income and savings.
Overall we can say that training and education, clean water and hygienic environment, nutrition and adequate food, accommodation, income and savings are important factors of poverty reduction. Because when a person has training and education he can improve his living standard, if a person has clean drinking water and adequate food he will be healthy and can earn in a better way for his family, if his accommodation is better and enough for family members and strong enough for natural disasters he can live in a better way. And obviously if his earning is good and enough for family he can also provide recreational activities to his children and can also afford uncertain expenses such as sudden guest etc and can also do savings for future, then all these things points towards a good life, a life with a good living standard and a life above poverty line. So; all above mentioned factors plays an important role in poverty reduction.
From data analysis it is concluded that the micro credit program is effective in giving un employed people employment such as taxi driver, shop keeper etc and to meet short term needs such as return debt taken from some one else, paying fee, operation, treatment of disease etc. Mostly borrowers of Muslim colony, Dhok Kala Khan, Shakrial and Tehmaspabad have used micro credit to purchase taxi, sewing machine and opening small shop and improving accommodation.
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Fair Credit and Fair Housing after the Subprime Lending and Foreclosure Crisis
1. Fair Credit and Fair Housing after the
Subprime Lending and Foreclosure Crisis
Mapping Inequity, Visioning Change:
A Forum on Fair Housing and Fair Lending
December 11, 2009
New Orleans, LA
Hosted by the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action
Center
Christy Rogers
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Ohio State University
2. This afternoon’s agenda
Purpose
To engage you and learn more about the nature of
fair housing and fair credit challenges in New
Orleans
To incorporate your feedback into our broader
“blueprint” for the future of fair housing and fair
credit
Agenda
Support for this the
Short framing talk: The “Future of Fair Housing &
Kirwan Institute’s
Fair Credit” “Future of Fair
Housing” initiative is
Small group brainstorming sessions
provided by the W.K.
Report out and discussion Kellogg Foundation
3. About Kirwan
Multidisciplinary applied
research institute
Our mission is to expand
opportunity for all, especially for our
most marginalized communities
Founded in 2003 by john powell
Opportunity Communities Program
Opening pathways to opportunity for
marginalized communities through
investments in people, places and
supporting linkages
Opportunity mapping
5. What happened?
-Lack of loan
information or
More than Just understanding for
Foreclosures and a consumers in many of
Few Bad Borrowers: these communities
Understanding the
Credit Crisis Impact in
Communities of Color -Communities were
historically starved of
Why Were Subprime credit
Loans Concentrated
in These -Mortgage
Neighborhoods? securitization and the
growth of the subprime
industry created
incentives to target new
markets with
mortgages
8. On the reverse side of the
coin, J. Hernandez shows how
areas in Sacramento with racially
restrictive covenants in the past
had the fewest loan denials
today…shows where prime credit
was steered.
10. Research takeaways
Unequal credit markets and segregated housing
happened together.
Fair credit and fair housing (broadly defined) will
only happen together.
Global finance has evolved against – and plays
out in – racially and economically segregated
neighborhoods.
We need to know more about banking and finance
Fair housing and fair credit is an issue for all of
us, but attention needs to be targeted to
marginalized communities.
Otherwise, policies miss key opportunities and
challenges and miss those most affected by the
crisis.
11. Kirwan Goals and Objectives
Make progress in fair housing in three areas:
Improve access to fair financial options
Affirmative community revitalization
Opportunity-based housing
Ensure that programs and policies responding to
the subprime crisis reach those most affected
Connect and engage diverse stakeholders for
cross-cutting advocacy
12. Key Questions Moving Forward
How do we best tell the story that we know? This
is important because the framing of the problem
shapes its solution.
How do we climb out of the subprime lending and
foreclosure fiasco without worsening the already
widening opportunity gaps for communities of
color?
Home ownership and mortgage lending
Credit access, debt, leverage
Banking, savings
13. Kirwan Initiative Design
What?
Understand new/current challenges and necessary
pathways to success
Provide a comprehensive view of changes needed
Provide resources and spark action among
advocates
How?
Input from advisory board
Commissioned research from national experts
Regional convenings (obtaining local expertise and
insight)
Collaboration & policy consensus building with
national advocacy organizations
14. Activities
Similar policy feedback from regional policy
meetings in Seattle, Detroit, and Austin (October –
November)
Federal policy and advocacy consensus building
meeting on fair credit co-hosted by
Kirwan, PRRAC, National Council of La
Raza, Center for Responsible Lending, and
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
(Washington, DC -- November 18)
The perspective on fair credit and fair
housing, particularly on consumer protection
advocacy, from the West Coast (Oakland, CA –
December 18)
Final policy and advocacy “blueprint” – publicly
available (website & materials available early 2010)
16. Commissioned Research (Ex’s)
Access to fair financial options (mortgage and
otherwise)
Banks’ increasing reliance on fees…implications for
low-income customers and communities of color
Discretionary pricing of financial products
Consumer credit for those coming out of foreclosure
Connect and engage diverse stakeholders
What might an advocacy strategy around fair credit
and fair banking look like?
What’s the role for philanthropies?
17. Commissioned Research (Ex’s)
Affirmative community revitalization
How has the subprime crisis exacerbated fair
housing and equitable community development
challenges?
(Minneapolis, Cleveland, Boston, Sacramento)
How has the subprime and foreclosure crisis
affected low-income and undocumented immigrant
homeowners?
Ensure that programs and policies responding to
the subprime crisis reach those most affected
How do we assess the current federal policy
response with respect to fair housing and civil rights
goals? (TARP, NSP2)
18. Commissioned Research: Up
Next
The Future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Note, very little momentum around this in DC;
advocates busy with CFPA Act and CRA …is it
slipping out of advocates’ sights?
Korman paper explores the (now-called) “regulated
entity” housing goals and the duty to serve
underserved markets through the lens of furthering
fair housing, both prior to and after HERA.
Stanton paper explores how Fannie and Freddie
might support the mortgage market as government
corporations, i.e. funding new mortgages with lower
borrowing costs, improving consumer protection for
borrowers, supporting other government housing
programs, especially the FHA.
19. Early findings
Properties in Foreclosure in North Minneapolis (Mark
Ireland)
No Home in Indian Country (Janeen Comenote)
TARP Programs Must Affirmatively Further (DeeDee
Swesnick)
20. Properties in foreclosure
Study of North Minneapolis
Subprime lenders did disproportionate lending in
the area
Vast majority of foreclosed mortgages issued
through mortgage broker (unregulated)
CRL study: pay on avg. $35,000 more over life of
loan vs. sub-prime mortgage through retail lender
Prime lenders disproportionately absent
Foreclosed homeowners owed 4-5% more than
the original principal balance
21. Properties in foreclosure
Under-reported, disproportionate affect on rental
families with school-age children
Rental properties accounted for 61% of foreclosures
40% of foreclosed households had children in
Minneapolis public schools; 60% were African
American
Yet most foreclosure policies directed to
homeowners
Properties lose value and endanger neighbors
Averaged ten months to sell at average loss of
$65K
83% of properties had 911 calls post-Sheriff’s
Sale, with an average of 8 calls per property
22. No Home in Indian Country
On-reservation populations
Federal government has legal and trust
responsibility to provide housing for Native people
NAHASDA – Block grants to tribes and tribally
designated housing entities
Currently able to meet 5% of need for housing
Denial rate for conventional home purchase loans
of 23% -- twice that of Whites
23. No Home in Indian Country
Off-reservation populations (majority of AI/AN
population in US)
8-state study revealed the following barriers to
housing for urban Native people: credit checks, low
income, lack of affordable housing
stock, background checks, deposit/down payment
requirements
Disproportionate number of Natives in homeless
shelter care, but very few projects serving the
Native community
Little known about barriers to fair credit
24. TARP’s duty to affirmatively
further
National Fair Housing Alliance advocacy
argument:
Federal programs designed to mitigate the effects
of the financial crisis must meet their obligations
under the Fair Housing Act
TARP scope close to $3 Billion
TARP funds relate to housing and urban
development
TARP funds must be spent in a way to
affirmatively further fair housing
25. Fair Housing Act requirements
Federal programs designed to mitigate the effects
of the financial crisis must meet their obligations
under the Fair Housing Act
“All executive departments and agencies shall
administer their programs and activities relating to
housing and urban development (including any
Federal agency having regulatory or supervisory
authority over financial institutions) in a manner
affirmatively to further the purposes of this
subchapter and shall cooperate with the Secretary
[of HUD] to further such purposes.” – Sec. 808(d)
26. Example: Home Affordable
Modification Program (HAMP)
Funded by $75 Billion in TARP funds
Incentivizes mortgage loan modifications to keep
families in their homes
Civil rights & consumer groups had to advocate
for the collection and reporting of data on
race, ethnicity & sex of applicants for HAMP loan
modifications
28. Embarrassing fee facts
Half of overdraft fees are from small ATM/debit
purchases (the “$40 cup of coffee”)
Some banks include the overdraft allowance in
the account balance shown at the ATM
In undercover visits, GAO officials often couldn’t
get required disclosures detailing fees
A handful of consumers pay the lion’s share of
fees (i.e. FDIC study showed that customers with
5 or more NSF transactions – 14% of customers -
- accounted for 93.4% of total NSF fees)
29. Civil rights concerns
[Tree] People who overdraft repeatedly are more
likely than the general population to be lower
income, single, non-white, and renters
Center for Responsible Lending. “Quick Facts on Overdraft Loans.”
April 9, 2009. http://www.responsiblelending.org/overdraft-
loans/research-analysis/
[Forest] Incomes lag while housing, health
care, and education costs skyrocket…more
people get in more debt, but the picture is
uneven.
30.
31. Remittance market
Remittance transfers are segregated from other
financial services
Remittances are largest interactions between
immigrants and the financial sector, yet the vast
majority (80-95%) goes through non-bank entities.
Results:
Weak consumer protections (Appleseed working to get
into CFPA)
Lack of access to other banking products
Waste of asset building opportunities
“Cash motivated” violence against immigrants
High fees (Western Union and Money Gram charge
$12-50 fee per transaction)
People are suspicious of bank pricing, don’t have
needed ID, or know of hand-to-hand alternatives
Bank of America has offered free remittance service
since 2005…banks want new customers
32. Fair housing and fair credit in New
Orleans
Group A: Barriers to / Best practices for access
to fair financial options, mortgage and otherwise
Group B: Barriers to / Best practices for
affirmative community revitalization
Group C: Barriers to / Best practices for
opportunity-based housing
35. Topic Detroit (MI Roundtable) Seattle (Northwest Justice Project) Austin (Green Doors)
Unemployment / lack of
Sustainable education on financial options
Credit Barriers 1 (tie) Banks profit from subprime loans Access to information
Lack of relationships with
2 citizen-bankers Complexity of transactions Education (including immigrant)
Intentional bank
discrimination and targeting /
Lack of responsibility from Discrimination/lack of
3 banks for crisis (tie) People don't trust banks/ racism alternative options (tie)
Intermediary at community
Sutainable Alternative models of credit level to ensure equal treatment
Credit Solutions 1 mapped to community needs Legal enforcement of existing laws of similarly situated borrowers
Partership between health
insurers, housing (connection
Opportunity with Detroit Smaller/local banks (micro-banks, between bankruptcy and health
2 housing stock at low prices non-profits, credit unions) insurance status)
3 Local lending / micro-credit Enforce usury law Collaborations (city, NPO's)
36. Topic Detroit (MI Roundtable) Seattle (Northwest Justice Project) Austin (Green Doors)
City planning process / lack of
local resources (i.e. few local
affordable housing developers;
Neighborhood weak philanthropic
Revitalization Racism and history (job Lack of inclusion of residents in community)/ lack of resident
Barriers 1 segregation, etc.) process education and trust (tie)
Different neighborhood types
need different approaches/
Lack of access to public policy what is community
"Spatial mismatch" (jobs not leaders; minority aspiration?/Austin reality/ lack
2 in neighborhoods of need) underrepresentation of affordable housing (tie)
Lack of investment in Detroit Fragmentation of similar interest
(risk aversion) / cost of rehab groups/ revitalization is not
3 > cost of demolition (tie) creating new local jobs N/A
Neighborhood
Revitalization Stakeholder involvement early in Integrated vision for planning
Solutions 1 Education planning process and development
Education opportunities /
Employment / Re-think CRA Cultivate community leaders at inclusive housing, smart
2 (tie) grassroots level housing policies (tie)
Robust civic engagement/ more
Lack of people of color in Dedicated organizations to local funding & resources/
solutions (foundations, generate collaborative action leadership innovation /
3 development assistance) (move past 'niche' limits) stronger civic organizations
37. Topic Detroit (MI Roundtable) Seattle (Northwest Justice Project) Austin (Green Doors)
Lack of inclusionary Higher cost in high-opp'y
Opportunity- developments / Lack of neighborhoods / NIMBYism /
Based Housing knowledge of available units High-opp'y neighborhoods
Barriers 1 (tie) Discrimination -- all levels given "free ride (tie)
Housing prices, rents in high-
opportunity areas/ lack of
People don't think there is a enforcement of existing law / Affordable housing not
2 market for market-rate homes housng search suport barriers (tie) reaching intended market
Low-income people pushed out
of city / "Micro-inflation" from
Austin boom / affordable
housing is clustered in low-
Lack of affordable units in opp'y areas / gov't housing
3 suburbs N/A programs are inadequate (tie)
Opportunity-
Based Housing New economic/ financial Be more deliberate in housing Aggressive legal methods -- sue
Solutions 1 toolbox "site" methods the City and State
Come to terms w/ "gated
community, Disneyland"
phenomenon / Spend more $$
on affordable housing in high
opp'y areas / prioritize public
Make housing more central in owned land for affordable
Create inclusionary community planning (approach as housing / link job opp'ys with
2 dialogues/agendas regional issue) housing oppy's
Affordable housing targets for
each neighborhood in city /
Promote more "sweat-equity"
models / enforce existing fair
housing statutes / educate
Separate out issues to break people on integration / "sue
3 out interests N/A the ba***rds" (tie)