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The contribution of the oundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA) microcredit to household poverty reduction: a case of Majengo, Dodoma urban

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dc.creator Mgana, Leah Leonard
dc.date 2019-09-02T12:22:40Z
dc.date 2019-09-02T12:22:40Z
dc.date 2014
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T12:07:41Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T12:07:41Z
dc.identifier Mgana, L. L. (2014). The contribution of the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA) microcredit to household poverty reduction: a case of Majengo, Dodoma urban. Dodoma: The University of Dodoma.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1442
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12661/1442
dc.description Dissertation (MA International Relations)
dc.description The study investigated the contribution of the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA) microcredit to household poverty reduction; taking Majengo area in Dodoma Municipal as a case study. The researcher used both primary and secondary data collection methods. The study came up with several conclusions. That FINCA offers several services but lending is the highly preferred service. Other services include money transfer, insurance and savings. Moreover, the accessibility of FINCA loans have increased household incomes, facilitated health care expenses, promote education and enhance private ownership of properties. These findings reveal that access to FINCA credit has impacted positively toward household poverty reduction. However, there are some challenges such as inadequate amount of loan and high interest rates that were identified by the study. The study has therefore recommended the following; The government, through the Ministry of Finance should establish fiscal and financial policies, together with increasing supervision and deregulations on microfinance institutions. This will encourage competition which will allow growth of microfinance and hence give room for poorest clients to be served. Moreover, it should also continue to complement it with other development social programs like public works and community development programs which will help boost more poor out of poverty. On the other hand, microfinance institutions should increase the level of their transparency, information sharing and allow supervision from the Bank of Tanzania (BOT), increase their innovations in their products, make use of high technology when they serve and offer loans and their staff should be well trained. This will increase operational efficiency and attract more poor people to get loans.
dc.language en
dc.publisher The University of Dodoma
dc.subject FINCA
dc.subject Majengo
dc.subject Dodoma
dc.subject Micro credit
dc.subject Household
dc.subject Poverty reduction
dc.subject Lending
dc.subject Money Transfer
dc.subject Household income
dc.subject Micro finance institutions
dc.subject Interest rate
dc.subject Foundation for International Community Assistance
dc.title The contribution of the oundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA) microcredit to household poverty reduction: a case of Majengo, Dodoma urban
dc.type Dissertation


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