Role of Microcredit towards Socioeconomic Empowerment of Pakistani Urban Women

Ahmad, Naila Masood; Ahmad, Magdy

doi:10.1080/09720073.2016.11892148

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“…The reason for selecting these MFIs is the priority they give in providing loans to female borrowers for starting their businesses. Further, these three MFIs are among the leading MFIs in Pakistan that are providing microfinance services and skill development training to women entrepreneurs (Ahmad and Ahmad, 2016; Saeed Khan et al , 2020). As MFIs have played a crucial role in developing and boosting women’s entrepreneurial activities in Pakistan.…”

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Exploring the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on women entrepreneurs in Pakistan

Mustafa

Khursheed

Fatima

et al. 2021

IJGE

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on micro-businesses owned by women borrowers of microfinance institutions and to provide policy suggestions to assist women entrepreneurs in managing such an unexpected crisis from a qualitative perspective within developing countries such as Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a qualitative research design to explore the impact of COVID-19 on women’s entrepreneurial activities. Seven women entrepreneurs were selected and semi-structured interviews with focused group discussion under case study research design are used. Thereby providing a contemporary view of the issues faced by women entrepreneurs in the period of huge social and economic upheaval. Findings The results provide valuable insights about how the COVID-19 crisis affected women entrepreneurs by particularly considering household income, business sales, lifestyle and mental health. The liquidation of women-led businesses indicated the necessity to reconsider creativity and digitalization for business survival. Moreover, the results also revealed that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the physical, mental and economic well-being of women highlights the need for considering gender gap issues in forming response policies for COVID-19 in developing countries. Originality/value As the COVID-19 crisis is a recent and existing phenomenon, this study is among the first to explore particularly the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on micro-enterprises mainly owned and managed by women. Thereby claiming that COVID-19 not only physically but also psychologically affected women entrepreneurs. Moreover, the study highlights a need of skill focused training programs for women entrepreneurs to make sure that they can protect their businesses during such difficult times.

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Exploring the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on women entrepreneurs in Pakistan

Mustafa

Khursheed

Fatima

et al. 2021

IJGE

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“…The microfinance significantly impacts social development as advocated by researchers like; Agboola & Osunde, 2012;Bansal & Singh, 2019) Researches including Weber & Ahmad (2014) contend that microfinance is required to lift emerging nations out of poverty (Datta & Sahu, 2022;Hassan & Islam, 2019). Microfinance has been extensively documented as a key factor for socio-economic well-being and poverty alleviation (Ahmad & Ahmad, 2016;Hassan & Islam, 2019;Imai & Azam 2012;Milana & Ashta, 2020).…”

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Investigating the Rural and Entrepreneurial Development through Microfinance

Parray

Bhat

Rather

et al. 2024

Int. res. j. bus. stud.

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Microfinance has been evolving to be a decisive factor in poverty reduction, rural and entrepreneurial development. This research aims to find out the impact of microfinance on rural/socio-economic development and entrepreneurial skill development. Particularly, this study attempts to explore the impact of microfinance on social development, financial empowerment, education, healthcare, economic independence, and entrepreneurial development. Data was collected through questionnaires taken from the beneficiaries of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) erstwhile Swaran Jayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) microfinance scheme in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. A purposive sampling method, exploratory factor analysis, and paired sample t-test were used in this study. The findings prove that microfinance facilitates social development, improved financial empowerment, and promotes decision-making relating to education and healthcare among beneficiaries. The finding also indicates that microfinance helps to increase entrepreneurial skill development among the beneficiaries. This study offers insight into how microfinance eliminates poverty and facilitates social development as well as entrepreneurial skills. These findings have essential implications for academics, policymakers, and microfinance institutions.

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“…He himself had retained as such position and apologized for the working as a judge of the Federal Court. Consequently, by the Chief Justice Sir Mian Abdul Rashid Khan of the Federal Court was deputed a junior judge Justice A. R. Cornelius of the Lahore High Court in the Federal Court as a judge, (Ahmad, 2016). Thus, at that time a bad paradigm had set in Pakistan's judiciary for future.…”

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“…That time, A. S. M. Akram was to be deputed as a Chief Justice in the Federal Court. Unfortunately, it did not happened, (Ahmad, 2016).…”

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Historic Disclosures About Blurry Motives of Politicization in Pakistan’s Judiciary

Muhammad Riaz,

Turab ul Hassan Sargana

2023

PJH

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The constitutional role of state institutions is very important for the stability of an independent state. Every independent state has three main pillar Executive, Legislature and Judiciary. While the judiciary being an important pillar in any state, plays a crucial role in maintaining of law and order, and peace along with political stability. In case of Pakistan judiciary as seen under politicization. Thus in Pakistan, there state institutions have been facing inner political interference in every era. Therefor the Constituent Assembly and Judiciary had completely failed to play its own constitutional role. The Constituent Assembly real task is legislation and Executive’s work to implement it. But the work of Judiciary is more important than these two institutions, it reviews and also interprets the laws made by the Constituent Assembly. So that, the supremacy of justice has been established in the country. But the judiciary involved along with the Executive remained the seat of politics for their own benefits. The basic purpose of this research article is to identify historic disclosures about blurry motives of politicization in Pakistan’s judiciary. The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political. interference. ----Aung San Suu Kyi---

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Role of Microcredit towards Socioeconomic Empowerment of Pakistani Urban Women

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Exploring the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on women entrepreneurs in Pakistan

Exploring the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on women entrepreneurs in Pakistan

Investigating the Rural and Entrepreneurial Development through Microfinance

Historic Disclosures About Blurry Motives of Politicization in Pakistan’s Judiciary

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