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V. Non-Material Benefits of Microfinancing
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| Microfinance initiatives offer more than just material benefits; they can also address
issues associated with "non-material" poverty, which includes social and psychological effects
that prevent people from realizing their potential. |
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V. Material Benefits of Microfinancing
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| Microfinance initiatives can play an effective role in addressing material poverty, the
physical deprivation of goods, services, and the income to attain them. MFIs can help people
become more economically secure. This, in turn, has a multiplier effect on people's standard of
living, enhancing basic household welfare, such as food security, nutrition, shelter, sanitation,
health and education services. MFIs can help prevent and extricate people from debt.
Oftentimes, they liberate low-income households from moneylenders with outrageous interest
rates that often reach 100% annually. Savings and credit services help people start or improve
their own small businesses, providing income generation and employment for themselves and
their families. |
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I. WHAT CAN MICROFINANCE DO FOR AFRICA?
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| When properly harnessed, microfinance offers a variety of benefits to the African people.
Foremost, microfinance initiatives can effectively address material poverty, the physical
deprivation of goods, services, and the income to attain them. When properly guided, the
material benefits of microfinancing can extend beyond the household into the community. At
the personal level, microfinance can effectively address issues associated with “non-material
poverty, which includes social and psychological effects that prevent people from realizing their
potential. |
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Ending Poverty Consciousness
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| This article distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness. It gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations. |
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5.0 Shell Foundation's experience on the ground: Enterprise solutions to poverty
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| Below we illustrate how the four elements of our
approach – financial viability, scaleability,
deployment of business DNA and harnessing of
corporate value-creating assets – are present in and
add value to what we do as a corporate foundation.
We draw in detail in the main text on material
from our Energise and Breathing Space programmes
which address the energy and poverty challenge.
We also refer extensively to other activities of ours
in the footnotes and in Annex 2. |
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The Role of Microfinance in Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Zambia: The Rainbow Model Provides a Future for AIDS Orphans
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| Poverty and HIV/AIDS constitute a vicious circle. Poverty creates vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and HIV/AIDS leads to poverty. Unfortunately, the interventions of the national and international community are not moving as quickly as the desperation and the loss of hope in the people coping with the pandemic at the grassroots level. |
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2.8 The foundations of a decent work strategy for poverty reduction: Working Out of Poverty
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| Most analysts of the nature and causes of poverty agree that growth in
per capita income is essential to reducing poverty and that persistent growth
failures are accompanied by a persistent failure to reduce poverty. However,
they have not found a stable relationship between the rate of average per
capita growth and the rate of poverty reduction. |
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3.5 Building local development through cooperatives: Working Out of Poverty
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| The participation of people living in poverty in policies to improve their
livelihood and counteract social exclusion and vulnerability is increasingly
emphasized in poverty reduction strategies. |
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5.6 A coherent framework for national and local action: Working Out of Poverty
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| Increased in-depth analysis of the multifaceted experience of poverty is
leading to a growing awareness of the need for a range of policies that are
specific to the problems faced by different communities and countries. Given
that the causes of poverty are many and interconnected, targeted policies
have most effect when they act in combination to break cycles of poverty.
One of the most encouraging aspects of the new approach to poverty reduction
and eradication is therefore the emphasis on policy coherence, based on
a comprehensive development framework. |
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I. WHAT CAN MICROFINANCE DO FOR AFRICA?
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| When properly harnessed, microfinance offers a variety of benefits to the African people.
Foremost, microfinance initiatives can effectively address material poverty, the physical
deprivation of goods, services, and the income to attain them. When properly guided, the
material benefits of microfinancing can extend beyond the household into the community. At
the personal level, microfinance can effectively address issues associated with “non-material
poverty, which includes social and psychological effects that prevent people from realizing their
potential. |
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V. Non-Material Benefits of Microfinancing
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| Microfinance initiatives offer more than just material benefits; they can also address
issues associated with "non-material" poverty, which includes social and psychological effects
that prevent people from realizing their potential. |
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It starts in the Brain
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| Books such as the iconic “How to Win Friends and Influence People” (1936, Dale Carnegie) or “Think and Grow Rich” (1937, Napoleon Hill) are based on the premise that we need to get our minds right before anything else can happen the way we want it to. Look at the book shelves in any bookstore or library and today you will find a plethora of material providing the same basic message.There is no shortage of material explaining the “what”: there is, however, a shortage of material explaining “how” to enable one to shift the area of control in the brain so that everything else can follow.
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Spin One Article Into Multiple Marketing Channels
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| One of the biggest complaints many people have with Internet marketing, is, "I don't have the time!" Is that true of you as well? If so, maybe you're not taking full advantage of the material you've already created. Writing new material is fun - and important. But don't overlook the opportunities to take your existing material and spin it into other forms. |
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