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Microcredit For Poverty Alleviation And Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Development: A Review Of African Case Studies, Asayehgn Desta
Microcredit For Poverty Alleviation And Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Development: A Review Of African Case Studies, Asayehgn Desta
Asayehgn Desta
With the hastening of the global poverty crisis and the absence of an adequate social safety net for those marginalized and vulnerable sections of society in the less developed countries, a number of researchers have moved beyond the relentless pursuit of short-term toward long-term anti- poverty, environmentally sustainable paradigms to assist chronically poor sectors of society. Though a remarkably polarizing issue, in the last three decades microcredit programs have been made available to the chronically poor as a viable option to involve them in the formal economic sector. It is assumed that the disadvantaged groups will become productive members of …