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15% Of The World's Population Living Below The Poverty Line

15% Of The World's Population Living Below The Poverty Line Although the world's production of food enough for all human beings average of 2720 calories per person per day , but there are 842 million people suffering from hunger every day !

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Says Dr. Magdy Badran , Ain Shams University , said that recent studies show that one out of every four children under five suffer stunted because of malnutrition ! ! There are also 2 million people lack the vitamins and minerals necessary for good health.

In celebrations of the world International Day of feed must be stressed that there is what is known as " hungry world ," a lack of adequate food for active and healthy life and during the twentieth century , died about 70 million people from starvation all over the world , especially in China and the Soviet Union , India and Africa.

There are currently nearly 1 billion people , or 15 % of the estimated world population of 6.8 billion live under the mantle of chronic hunger.

Dr. Magdy shows that the majority of people suffering from malnutrition live in developing countries , and more than 70 % of children who suffer from malnutrition live in Asia , 26 % in Africa and 4 % in Latin America and the Caribbean .

It is strange that in the United States is a rich country , there is a 13 % live within the confines of the permanent hunger and nearly 25% of American children there do not have any food in dinner , or about 17 million children .

Command Global Growth Move To Outside of Europe By 2017

This year will be pivotal for the Global Economy. For the first time since that push the switch to the machine in the UK to the path of industrialization in the nineteenth century, the emerging economies will produce the majority of goods and services in the world. The population of the rich developed economies representing long ago a large proportion of world output, but the proportion come from a small group of the world's population. They are now less important than the economic side of the group of people who live in the poor countries of the world and middle-income countries.

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This shift in the balance of Global economic power deep, a shift that economists expect to continue. The International Monetary Fund expects to increase the share of the emerging economies of global output to 55 per cent by the year 2018, what makes the description of "emerging" misplaced increasingly.

Although the standards of living in developed countries remains five times higher, but the gap is rapidly narrowing since 1990. In countries where the income which goes hand in hand with the growth, the title now is catching. In addition to the half stake owned by the emerging countries of the world output, is expected to adopt three-quarters of economic growth on the big vitality during the next five years.

Jim O'Neill, who retired some time ago from the post of chief economist at Goldman Sachs, likes to use compared blatant expression of transformation. He says that the annual growth rate of 8 per cent in China now equivalent in importance a growth rate of 4 per cent in the United States Wall Street Exposed. This is a sharp contrast compared to 1980, when China was recorded faster growth rates even now, but it was like a relatively small fish. In 1980 the growth rate was 10 per cent less important than 1 per cent in the United States.

The long haul to prominence for the Group of Seven economies outside the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada is not a surprise. Growth was strongest in emerging countries for more than 30 years, and per capita levels were incurred in developed countries during the past 20 years.

This superior performance becomes a striking stronger when seen over a longer time frame. The monitoring of the McKinsey Global Institute shift in the center of gravity for the global economy to the world economy, noting that it was in the north of Iceland in the middle of the North Atlantic in 1950. And then, when Japan began to take off, taking in the spacing of the United States heading towards the east. He is now moving quickly toward the southeast, where moved during the past decade, a distance of more than on any other contract. By 2025 it will be close to Novosibirsk in southwest Siberia.

Says Richard Dobz, a member of the Board of Directors McKinsey: "development and economic transition of China towards the cities is happening at a greater rate one hundred times the size of the shift in Britain, the first country turns to the direction of urban and industrial, and ten times faster than almost, and thus the industrial revolution the Chinese possess momentum stronger a thousand times of the British Industrial Revolution. "

This shift in Global economic marched at specific stages during the past 30 years. In the mid-eighties, the big developed countries still dominate global growth. The United States accounted for almost one-third, and the European Union about 20 per cent, and the six countries of the Group of Seven in the list of top ten countries with the largest contribution to global growth (only France was off the menu). There was a common expression says if the United States sneezed, the rest of global economy will infect the cold.

These figures were calculated using data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is based on the purchasing power of the dollar for the local currency, and thus there was a similar weight equivalent to the rise in the amount of goods and services produced in different countries.

By the mid-nineties, the former giants of the Global economy out of the "Premier League". No longer Germany and Italy have conferred rank to be among the top ten countries in economic growth, and the importance of Japan fell by more than half. Existing and entered Mexico and Indonesia, a sign that the fact that a developing country and The high population density puts it on the road certainly lead to the ups and enter the adult league.

In the years prior to the 2008-2009 crisis, China has emerged to be so far the largest source of growth, and swept the charts to reach the fourth place against the backdrop of the rise in the production of goods and prices.

Britain was present in the list of the top ten countries, having enjoyed the same 30 years to catch up with the growth in the wake of recovery from being the sick man of Europe, but it looks on track to get out of the Premier League between 2012 and 2017. And will be a list of the top ten countries in terms of the country's share in global growth has completely moved out of Europe, are expected to form the entire European Union accounted for only 5.7 per cent of global growth. And will be India and China together almost half of global economic expansion.

This amounted to a shift in economic power limit makes any company concentrating its efforts in established economies, are actually living in the past.
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AGFUND poses mechanisms of microfinance a funky alternative to the fight against hunger in the world

Confirmed the Arab Gulf Program for Development "AGFUND" headed by Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz, his commitment to the fight against hunger in the world through the mechanisms of microfinance and poverty reduction, and improve the conditions of needy segments.

AGFUND supports development strategy is based on three axes: finance projects around the world without discrimination, and building projects for the benefit of those in need, such as banks for the poor, and development partnerships.

AGFUND

In the context of the third track, which means "partnerships" Search AGFUND promote development of relations with the World Food Programme of the United Nations, during a meeting held yesterday at the headquarters of AGFUND in Riyadh.

The Executive Director of AGFUND Nasser bin Bakr Al-Qahtani said the two sides discussed visions serve the fight against hunger in unconventional ways, stressing the readiness of AGFUND to contribute to the financing of projects aimed to fight hunger through alternatives to traditional developed, which mechanisms of microfinance, and banks poverty founded by AGFUND and deployed in the region .

The long cooperation between AGFUND and United Nations organizations makes the common language between them and clear, which helps to achieve common goals in the time frame and in a timely manner for the target segments.

The meeting was attended by AGFUND Executive Director of AGFUND Nasser bin Bakr Al-Qahtani, Director of Project Management Jibreen Jibreen, and the Secretary General of the AGFUND Prize Media Director Abdul Latif Alazaviha, and was attended by the World Food Programme Executive Director Catherine Cazin and the Deputy Executive Director Chief Operating Prince Abdullah, the Assistant Director Executive Romer Lopez, and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome Bandar bin Abdulmohsen Al-Shalhoub, WFP Regional Director Mohamed Diab, Donor Relations Officer World Jewels Atef Programme.

Microfinance Mechanism

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The Arab Gulf for Development Program "AGFUND" and the OPEC Fund for International Development "OFID" was organized an international symposium, entitled "The role of donors in meeting the basic needs of the poor (education, health, energy, housing, agriculture) through the mechanism of microfinance" ; Which was held in the Austrian capital, Vienna, headquarters of the "OFID", 5 June 6, 2012. The main objectives of the workshop focused on: the definition of effective role for the use of microfinance mechanism to meet the basic needs for the life of a large segment of the poor in developing societies.

The workshop reviewed the benefits of linking the provision of financial services in the microfinance industry of non-financial services in the sectors of health, education, energy, agriculture and housing. Addressing the seminar, Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz, President of AGFUND, and displays the vision program for the development of Arab Gulf in the recruitment of microfinance to fight poverty, and the positive results achieved by the project "AGFUND" to establish banks for the poor in the region. Was to provide models of successful experiences in the application of international microfinance.

 It is noteworthy that the most important challenges facing the microfinance industry and hinder their growth is the presence of a large financing gap in the industry between demand and supply for microfinance services, as they limit the expansion and the spread of existing institutions aiming to provide services to the poor in an effective manner to narrow this funding gap initiated "AGFUND" launch a fund to provide "financing facility" for microfinance banks founded by a number of Arab and African countries, and for other MFIs in the Arab region.

 Such an initiative of the International Symposium to encourage donors and financial institutions to open the windows to support the MFIs operating in developing communities to reduce poverty rates. And broke up a seminar to develop new mechanisms for definition by the microfinance sector and its future, and develop its role in reducing poverty, combating unemployment. Has also been monitoring the number of experiences and successful applications in the delivery of microfinance services integrated. It will AGFUND and OFID on the dissemination of these applications for the benefit of MFIs.

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Sudan Monitors 3 Trillion Pounds To Fund Youth Projects

The Sudanese government Spotted 12% of the budget of each bank to support the microfinance industry to advance its role in supporting young people and the fight against poverty and the empowerment of women, as was done at the crossroads of Islamic Microfinance, which concludes its work in Khartoum in the coming days with the participation of a number of experts, specialists and researchers in the field of microfinance experience Bangladesh Grameen Bank

Microfinance in Sudan
The support and banking institutions of the Islamic Microfinance in Sudan a major anchor to the success of microfinance has helped figure the more I said to the sustainability of microfinance projects

The microfinance institutions in Sudan services associated with the microfinance are on both sides of social and economic, such as education, health and combating poverty It also provides technical services such as training in providing funding, training and awareness to enable customers to benefit from funding in the specific project and its sustainability.

The percentage of beneficiaries 97% of the poor as a result of training, rehabilitation and education, most of the loans and mass less than 1% of individual loans

Microcredit Banks in Morocco


There are Two Microfinance Banks in Morocco, The Banque Populaire Foundation for Microcredit (FBPMC) and Credit Agricole Microcredit "ARDI Foundation":

- The Banque Populaire Foundation for Microcredit (FBPMC): was established September 6, 1999.
It is an Institution nonprofit governed by the Dahir of 15 November 1958 (regulating the right of association) and Law 18/97 on the performance of the activity of microcredit. It is an answer citizen of Groupe Banque Populaire, which aims to effectively contribute, alongside the state and other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), national effort to fight poverty and unemployment and to promote employment.

On 1st March 2000, the FBPMC received approval from the Ministry of Economy and Finance to conduct the activity of microcredit. Its object is essentially:

* Distributing microcredits to enable the economically
low to create or develop their own productive activity or service,
to ensure their integration into the economy overall.
* Carry the benefit of its customers, all associated operations relating to the granting microcredits, including training, consulting and technical assistance.

The approach combines the proximity Foundation, funding, coaching, training and monitoring of micro-entrepreneur.
The network of Banque Populaire Fondataion For MicroCredit currently consists of
219branches and distributed antennas travers12 regional supervision.

The establishment of new branches has been accompanied by the recruitment of new officers.
The actual network has reached 833 officers, while the effective seat was 116 components, a comprehensive emotional 949 (44% men and 56% women).

- ARDI Foundation: was established in 2001 as an association of economic and social profit. Its mission is to fight against financial exclusion and promote micro-enterprises particularly in rural areas, through the exercise and the promotion of micro credit.

With a new logo, a new organization and new ambitions, the Foundation ARDI is an extension of the activity of the Credit Agricole Morocco to the rural population not served by traditional bank financing.

ARDI gives poor local services necessary for their socioeconomic integration, investing space and closer to people who need it even in the remotest areas.

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Can Micro Insurance Protect the Poor

Low-cost insurance that covers the lives, health and property of the poor could provide protection against natural disasters.
In December 2010 devastating flooding in Colombia killed more than 200 people and left 1.7 million homeless. The damage caused was catastrophic, with 628 cities and towns hit by floodwaters, over 1,800 homes destroyed and a further 256,000 damaged.

Like the victims of most natural disasters across the world, the vast majority of those who lost relatives, homes and belongings, many of them poor farmers living in isolated rural areas, will receive no compensation for their losses and will have to rebuild their lives from scratch.

With the floods largely ignored by the international community, government assistance patchy and slow, and aid agencies struggling to fill the void, Colombia's insurance agencies are saying they can provide a much-needed safety net for when the rains return.

Microinsurance, low-cost insurance policies that cover the lives, health, crops and property of the most vulnerable, are being seen as a central way of providing social protection to the increasing numbers of people affected by natural disasters such as hurricanes, flooding and drought.

A recent report by the German insurance giant Munich Re calculated that 2010 was the second worst year for disasters since 1980. It reported that 950 global catastrophes had amounted to overall losses of around $130bn. Of this, only around $37bn was insured. For example, only 1% of the $14bn of property damage caused by Haiti's massive earthquake was covered by insurance.

At the Bonn climate change talks in 2008, microinsurance was touted as a central component of climate change adaptation measures in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Yet while microinsurance has seen increasing success in Africa and Asia, it has so far failed to make significant inroads into the Latin American market. But this could be changing.

The Colombian offices of insurance companies such as Liberty and ESA have told journalists that they are seeing a spike in the number of people taking out microinsurance policies. ESA says it is selling more than 60,000 microinsurance policies a month, mostly health , for around $1 a month.

There are hopes that microinsurance could offer some form of social protection in other countries across the region. A government-backed scheme run by Peruvian insurance company La Positiva targets over one-third of Peru's 9 million rural population, offering micro-life insurance at a marginal cost of the income generated by a family's annual harvest.

The cost of the insurance, which is between $0.5 and $2 a month, is added to the water irrigation price already paid by the farmers. Brazil and Mexico have also been identified as huge markets for growth, with millions of potential customers.

Yet despite the buzz surrounding microinsurance, the industry's reach is still limited. The 150 million people currently holding policies represent only a small fraction (around 5%) of a potential market of up to 3 billion.

Unlike microfinance programmes that provide people with instant cash, the insurance industry has so far struggled to overcome the simple problem of trying to ask poor people to pay for something they might never use.

Richard Leftley, the chief executive of UK-based MicroEnsure, one of the leading microinsurance companies, says that it has all but scraped the idea of trying to sell policies direct. He says turning up in towns and villages and asking poor families to buy insurance simply doesn't work. "Trying to explain to someone with no prior experience of insurance that if you pay even just a little bit every month then someone will pay you back if your crops failed or your child is hospitalised is often met with a perfectly understandable 'yeah right' response," he says.

Instead, the industry is evolving, with many policies now being sold as add-ons to products and brands that people already use and trust. For example, MicroEnsure says it is now conducting most of its business in Africa through partnerships with mobile phone companies.

Phone companies trying to get people to stop using multiple sim cards and stay loyal to one air-time provider are offering life or health and disaster insurance as an incentive. People who buy credit for one month get a month's worth of insurance at no extra cost.

Other obstacles are also stunting the potential of microinsurance as a widely used financial service for those vulnerable to natural disasters.

Weather-based claims have proved tricky. Microinsurance companies have had to dictate levels of rainfall as a way of setting limits for claims. Leftley says problems have occurred when these limits haven't quite been reached yet farmers still believed their crops had been damaged and expected compensation.

Major insurance firms are still being put off entering the market because microinsurance claims have to have few, if any, exclusions. Claims have to be paid almost instantly. It only takes one company to fail to pay out to its customers for years of fragile trust-building to be destroyed in an instant.

Yet Leftley believes microinsurance's time has come. He points to the increasing backlash against microfinance as a "fix-all" solution to poverty as stories mount of families being put under unbearable and devastating pressure to pay back microfinance debts.

"I think credit has been seen as the easy solution for global poverty, and the micro-finance industry has been drinking its own Kool-Aid for a bit too long," he says. "While credit is the best option in some situations, people are starting to realise that there are other options – and this can only be good for the microinsurance industry."

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Global Microcredit Summit in Spain


The Global Microcredit Summit in Valladolid, Spain will be the 15th global or regional summit organized by the Microcredit Summit Campaign.

The purpose of the 2011 Global Microcredit Summit is to encourage practitioners and other stakeholders to use microfinance as a means towards ending global poverty.

This summit brings together microcredit practitioners, educators, lawyers, NGOs, international financial institutions in connection with microcredit to exchange best practices and share their knowledge of microfinance.

This summit aims to develop the standard of living of the poorest families in the world, and specifically targets women.

The first microcredit campaign was launched in 1997 and managed to achieve the goals set in 2006, as a campaign of 9 years.

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Poverty in China

China to raise the challenge in the face of poverty

The Chinese government pledged to eradicate poverty in the country by the year 2010. Which will pay special attention to poverty-stricken areas located within the area of Tibet Autonomous Territories From next year, noting that these projects cover the areas of education, health, culture, employment and social security.

The statistics also showed that the number of Chinese citizens who earn less than 1196 yuan for the annual "181.2 dollars, " reached 35.97 million in 2009, forming 3.8% of the rural population in China.


China's economy is one of the strongest economies in the world where there has been a growth rate of more than two digits in many cases %10.

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The Financial Crisis and Microfinance

Microfinance Industry

The success of microcredit throughout the world is undeniable and the high repayment rates of poor entrepreneurs who benefit are well known. A number of corollaries have developed: microsavings, microinsurance and micropayments. Today there are more than 10,000 microfinance institutions (MFIs), which carry out transactions totaling over 40 billion euros from 150 million poor, mostly women. Of these 10,000 facilities, about 2% have the necessary scale to be profitable. These 2% provide the bulk of funding for the sector.

The financial crisis that we have known for two years she affects this table and she slows the prospects of microfinance? Today, there are two main effects of the financial crisis on microfinance. On one hand, the rate of non-repayment of microemprunteurs increased, as shown by the Moroccan example (although country star microfinance still two years ago ...). On the other hand, growth in the number of loans for microfinance is still largely informal and feeds mainly on activities that are not related to the global economy, excluding agriculture and commercial activities related to tourism.



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Moroccan Association for Solidarity and Development "AMSED"

"AMSED" (Moroccan Association for Solidarity and Development)
 that initiated the activity of microcredit in Morocco 1993.
Elle she has inherited its philosophy and its expertise in the field of microfinance.
"AMSED" is non-profit organization,and its main objective is
Helping the poor out of poverty through microfinance through to small business.

"AMSED" partners are both governmental and non-governmental like international organizations such as World Bank, UNICEF,ILO,..,bilateral aid organizations "USAID" and many national NGOs.

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Does Microcredit Good for the Poor?

 Microcredit Impact
Itraud always to my mind this fundamental question when talking about microcredit: Do you really good
microcredit for the poor?In other words, you can microloans for small to help the poor out of a poverty, and to secure the basic daily needs? This question leads us into a spiral of other questions, what is poverty? Who are the poor? And on what basis can distinguish between the poor?

We find that in most cases, using income as a basis for discrimination among the poor, we say, for example, the poor, income non-existent or non-existent similarities, the poor, with low-income, and so on ...
Let's go back to the question we started with our article, and try to answer it. During the field research I did last year (2009) - unpublished at present - about microcredit in Morocco concluded that more than 60 per cent of the poor / respondents, their status improved and socio - economic benefit from the loan after the small, and further concluded that the loans can be small rural areas to contribute to the alleviation of rural migration, and thereby reduce poverty in reaching out to the residence of urban areas.
It is known that the poor, save in some way (jewelry, precious metals ...) in case of any emergencies that might come into contact with in the future life, but there are a broad class of poor - almost non-existent or no-income - does not have any savings, the group living on less than one dollar a day, so I think that the current microcredit on its own terms - high interest, the small size of the loan .. - Not in favor of this category of the poor, but will further aggravate the crisis and their status and socio - economic crisis to begin with.
In summary, the microcredit good for the poor who need only "a small boost to stand on their feet" for their projects nanotechnologies.

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PlaNet Finance Morocco

 PlaNet Finance Logo
PlaNet Finance is an international non profit organization whose mission is to fight against poverty through the development of microfinance to improve access to financial services for the poor who are excluded.
Since its inception in 1998, PlaNet Finance has developed a group of organizations (PlaNet Finance Group) offering a diverse range of services. These entities are composed of dedicated and specialized team with more than 1 000 professionals.
Based in Paris, PlaNet Finance's international network and are active in nearly 80 countries.

PlaNet Finance Morocco is a Moroccan non-profit organization founded in 2002, which has its management structures and its Board of Directors, whose enrollment to date is 17 people.
PlaNet Finance Morocco is affiliated to PlaNet Finance Network World.
PlaNet Finance Morocco is as a facilitator for the microfinance sector in Morocco. It offers its services to microcredit associations, public authorities and donors.
PlaNet Finance Morocco has completed its action plan and has achieved since its inception in June 2002, the development of practical and useful tools to develop and operate by the AMC themselves. She continues to support the CMA in Morocco from two levels of intervention:

Objectives at the sectoral level:

• Maintain and develop the tools already in place: the portal, mapping, Central Risk
• Continue training of direct and indirect stakeholders in the sector: PFM is a training center, information, research and technical support
• Provide funding: MAC help in accessing funding through the establishment of fund financing
• Expand the supply of services of AMC: extending the offer beyond microcredit

Objectives at the individual level:

• Supporting new entrants: Microcred,
• Target new populations: awareness of women, rural people, young people in precarious situation
• Strengthen the smaller AMC level institutional
• Propose specific expertise to the largest AMC, public authorities or other .

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Poverty in Morocco

Poverty in Morocco
The identification of the concept of Poverty is not easy, arises where a great deal of controversy and disagreement about the appropriate definition of poverty, some researchers poverty is defined according to income or rather due to the lack of income, and other researchers emphasize that poverty should be measured by the inability of the individual to obtain the necessary social requirements, and accepted that poverty, can not be reduced only in the deprivation of financial resources that this concept be expanded to include other forms of deprivation social, poverty is defined from the perspective of social exclusion.

Has become a poverty problem in our country today is structurally stable and elusive and multifaceted, is the weakness of job opportunities available in the case of marginalization that are attacking large groups of society, which would be spared to take advantage of infrastructure and social services available to the rare and deprive them from participating in decision-making.

The failures associated with poverty, political, economic and social failure of many development schemes, defined by Morocco since independence, particularly on the program and the accompanying structural adjustment measures, have resulted in cases of austerity, unemployment and inflation and a wage freeze and tax pressure and the decline in purchasing power and extremely difficult to access social services, and an imbalance in the the distribution of income. Which led to the impoverishment of the poor and more wealth and prosperity for the majority of the rich few lucky ones.

In terms of figures about the number of poor people today in our country of 5 million people, according to the results of recent research on the standard of living of households, 4 million Moroccans live below the relative poverty threshold (an annual expenditure of less than 3235 DHs in urban areas and 2989 DHs in rural areas and so on) live 3 million of the total poor in the villages and one million in cities and about 25% of the Moroccan economic weakness large (annual expenditure is less than 4500 DHs).

Thus, poverty is, in depth, a rural phenomenon, and this is confirmed by research and the first map of poverty carried out by the High Planning Commission and the World Bank recently.

On the other hand, poverty affects mainly women and young people and childrens.


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Microcredit: a miracle or disaster ?

                                                                    Microcredit
These studies seem to tell us that microcredit makes exactly the services expected of a good financial product: it enables its customers to make major purchases for their business or their household, they could not hire otherwise.

But eighteen months later, we found no sign of a profound transformation of the lives of these families, neither the one nor the other of those studies demonstrated impact on health, education or decision-making power of women. Contrary to pessimistic predictions of the skeptics of microfinance, there has been no frenzy of irresponsible consumption caused by easy money: on the contrary, in India, some families drop out of small temptations of everyday life (tea, snacks, betel nut, tobacco) to repay the loan that allowed them to purchase durable goods.

It is much safer than short-term effects. The impact in three years or more may be quite different. The additional income from the activity they finance the schooling of children? Either the weight of weekly payments will he feel better? Data are being collected.
The dream world of a recipe against poverty and microcredit was a candidate quite plausible. These studies suggest that it is time to return to a more nuanced description of its possible benefits. But blame microcredit to be useless or dangerous because it might prove to be the recipe did not make much sense.

Leaving aside the controversial speech has the advantage of prompt us to go beyond a binary debate to question the canonical model of microcredit and ask how he could better serve their borrowers. One limitation is that the micro finance activities primarily to very small scale, very low growth, very different from the icons of a Bill Gates start Microsoft in his garage in the city streets of India, Indonesia and Bangladesh, we see countless small shops, selling all the same, whose profits are hardly sufficient to pay minimum wages to their owners, although ten to twelve hours of daily work. These micro-enterprises are struggling to move up a gear: more than 90% of business customers Spandana we studied have no employees, none did more than three. To what extent the structure of microcredit contributes Does this state of affairs?
A first aspect is the liability, trademark microcredit. It discourages risk taking, because other women in the group does not want to risk having to refund in case of failure, whereas in case of success, they n'empocheront no additional gains: they will tend to prevent others from engaging in risky activities, but more profitable. But a recent study in the Philippines shows that the loan is not solidarity essential to the proper reimbursement: reimbursement rates are equally high in the traditional branches in those where clients are only responsible for their own borrowing.
The weekly repayment and Now, another cornerstone of Microcredit, also has its limits. In West Bengal, the organization Village Welfare Society has enabled some clients do not start paying a few weeks after having received money from the loan. This enabled them to make investments more profitable and more ambitious: for example, those who wanted to engage in the sale of clothing bought a sewing machine instead of a stock to sell saris. This level of increased risk, of course, leads to more failures and thus more non-recoverable.

Thus, paradoxically, microcredit by its current rules, is more suited to finance activities that family eke out a living as real companies creating jobs. But the movement is in the process of renewal: some microfinance institutions (including Grameen Bank) have quietly abandoned the joint loan. They continue to ask their clients to meet each week, these meetings create strong social links, facilitating mutual assistance in case of crisis. But they do not penalize longer a client when the group does not repay. In addition, organizations such as Accion help microfinance institutions to offer their best customers individual products, tailored to business finance slightly more important. Other groups offer training in accounting or management to their customers.

But funding is not the only barrier to the growth of micro-enterprises. In many cases, microfinance clients are entrepreneurs want the best. Following the Asian crisis for example, the number of family businesses has exploded in Thailand. But unlike earlier periods, these companies have not prospered. Their owners have abandoned them once the economic situation had improved and were able to find gainful employment. These entrepreneurs forced dream for themselves and their children, a stable job, which seems to him, initiate a process of national transformation: its security can invest in the education of children, health or home more welcoming.
This obviously does not question the usefulness of microcredit, as these jobs are not stable or not in sufficient numbers. An activity, however modest, is already an essential income. But the romantic vision of one billion entrepreneurs barefoot is probably an illusion. Distinguishing those of their customers who actually risk-taking and enterprise of those who are forced, and offer each service is tailored the new challenge of microfinance. Similarly, growth of real wage sector (industrial or service) must remain a priority for economic policy in poor countries.

Source:
http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/2010/01/11/microcredit-miracle-ou-desastre-par-esther-duflo_1290110_3232_1.html
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Poverty in Morocco


Morocco Poverty Map

The identification of the concept of poverty is not easy, arises where a great deal of controversy and disagreement about the appropriate definition of poverty, some researchers poverty is defined according to income or rather due to the lack of income, and other researchers emphasize that poverty should be measured by the inability of the individual to obtain the necessary social requirements, and accepted that poverty, can not be reduced only in the deprivation of financial resources that this concept be expanded to include other forms of human deprivation concept of poverty is defined from the perspective of social exclusion.

Has become a poverty problem in our country today is structurally stable and elusive and multifaceted, is the weakness of job opportunities available in the case of marginalization that are attacking large groups of society, which would be spared to take advantage of infrastructure and social services available to the rare and deprive them from participating in decision-making.
The failures associated with poverty, political, economic and social failure of many development schemes, defined by Morocco since independence, particularly on the program and the accompanying structural adjustment measures, have resulted in cases of austerity, unemployment and inflation and a wage freeze and tax pressure and the decline in purchasing power and extremely difficult to access social services, and an imbalance in the the distribution of income. Which led to the impoverishment of the poor and more wealth and prosperity for the majority of the rich few lucky ones.
In terms of figures about the number of poor people today in our country of 5 million people, according to the results of recent research on the standard of living of households, 4 million Moroccans live below the relative poverty threshold (an annual expenditure of less than 3235 DH in urban areas and 2989 DH in rural areas and so on) live 3 million of the total poor in the villages and one million in cities and about 25% of the Moroccan economic weakness large (annual expenditure is less than 4500 DH).
Thus, poverty is, in depth, a rural phenomenon, and this is confirmed by research and the first map of poverty carried out by the High Planning Commission and the World Bank recently.
On the other hand, poverty affects mainly women and young people and children.

Grameen bank : bank of the poor


Economy is Bangladeshi Muhammad Yunus and the founding father of micro-credit programs, one of the financial innovations that have arisen with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, which was founded in 1976 as a project to turn later to the Bank of specialists in the year 1983, the most famous micro-credit programs in the world , where the proportion of women constitute more than 90%, with the rate of recovery of loans amounting to more than 95% , and in this regard, Muhammad Yunus was awarded this status with his Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Prize in October 13, 2006 by the Swedish Academy in recognition of greeted the visit to the fight against poverty.


Successful experience of Bangladesh in micro-credit programs through the Grameen Bank - means Bank of the village - in the recovery of loans and access to the poor, attracted worldwide attention, has been replicated in more than 60 countries including the United States , and in many countries of the world developing low-income in order to fight poverty and social exclusion and financial discrimination.


By Rachid AJMAL

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The concept of poverty

child poverty in africa

The identification of the concept of poverty is not easy, arises where a great deal of controversy and disagreement about the appropriate definition of poverty, some researchers poverty is defined according to income or rather due to the lack of income, and other researchers emphasize that poverty should be measured by the inability of the individual to obtain the necessary social requirements, and accepted that poverty, can not be reduced only in the deprivation of financial resources that this concept be expanded to include other forms of human deprivation, the concept of poverty is defined from the perspective of social exclusion.

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By Rachid AJMAL