Author

  • Rukhsana Kalim

    • University of Management and Technology, Johar Town Campus Lahore, Pakistan
    • Pakistan

  • Taseer Salahuddin

    • University of Central Punjab, Jinnah Avenue, Johar Town, Lahore, Pakistan
    • Pakistan

Abstract

Poverty reduction has been declared as the most important millennium development goal not only by the world level organizations and institutions, but also by the government of Pakistan. Micro-credit is considered as a prime tool to fight back poverty. After the success of Grameen Bank of Bangladesh multiple other banks and micro finance institutions (MFI’s) like Banko Soladerio of Latin America, Indonesia’s BRI-UD, BAAC in Thailand, BRAC in Bangladesh and VBSP in Vietnam have been working on almost the similar pattern. In Pakistan different NGOs like AKRSP, Orangi pilot project, Kashf foundation and others have started working for the past few years basically to eradicate poverty and for women empowerment. The government institutions are also seriously making an effort to eradicate poverty through micro financing schemes. Government of Pakistan has selected the RSP (rural support program) model for micro-financing. The success of both government institutions and NGOs is not very outstanding to meet the basic objective of poverty eradication. The aim of this paper is to see the possibility of collaboration between the NGOs and the government to achieve the desired common goal. It is hypothesized that if government and NGOs work together and collaborate each other, the effectiveness of micro financing schemes could be strengthened.

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Kalim, R., & Salahuddin, T. (2011). Micro Financing of NGOs and Government: Collaborative Impact on Poverty Eradication. Information Management and Business Review, 2(2), 81-91. https://doi.org/10.22610/imbr.v2i2.885

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2011-02-15

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