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Microfinance and microcredit in developing countries
Hlinková, Soňa ; Zetek, Pavel (advisor) ; Janda, Karel (referee)
The bachelor thesis deals with the fundamental issues of microfinancial sector, describes the birth of the field, priciples of working and defines concrete social benefit for population of the world's poorest regions. Field of interest is also focused on the determination of the main problems of microfinance as well, like high operating costs, lack of regulatory frameworks or an excessive profit greed of investors. The paper continually emphasizes considerable differences between microfinancial and banking sector as well. The significant part is focused on key subjects of the microfinancial market- non-profit and profit microfinancial institutions, which work compares and eventually analyses their efficiency.
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Microcredit as an instrument for escape from circle of poverty
Gúth, Ondřej ; Šaroch, Stanislav (advisor) ; Zapletal, Petr (referee)
The main goal of this paper is to analyse the capability of microcredit to meet the expectations of poverty reduction in the world. Firstly, these expectations are demonstrated and rationalised on the case of Grameen Bank. This paper then continues by enquiring after desinterested proof of positive effects of microcredit on poverty reduction by analysing several case studies conducted in different parts of the world. Last part of the paper analyses recent crises of microfinance, downsides of microcredit and the risks for their receivers.
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The Comparison of Impacts of Development Aid and Trade Liberalization on the Developing World
Trinh, Hong Trang ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Nováková, Jana (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyse and evaluate the impacts of development aid and trade liberalization in the developing world and to outline some "partial" or alternative solutions, with a focus on current trends and economic development. The following three fields are taken into account by the evaluation: economic, political and human rights. The first part deals with general characteristics of developing countries and their current position in the world economy. The next two sections focus on the analysis of the effects of development aid (chapter two) and trade liberalization (chapter three). The last section contains some other possible solutions to the problems in the developing world (the importance of remittances and microfinance).
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Microfinance in the EU
Odstrčilíková, Linda ; Němcová, Ingeborg (advisor) ; Tunkrová, Věra (referee)
This work deals with microfinance in the EU. It explains the relationship among the EU instruments, programmes and initiatives, and it brings the most important information about all available products for both potential providers and potential clients. The work focuses mainly on the European Progress Microfinance Facility and its supporting products. It also contains brief historic development of microfinance, information about financing of microcredits in the EU, real life examples and critics of microfinance.
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Microfinance: Development Aid Tool
Klačková, Zuzana ; Taušer, Josef (advisor) ; Černá, Iveta (referee)
In the 20th century, microfinance went through a revolution: the number of microfinance was expanding exponentially all over the world. Microfinances are supposed to be one of the most efficient tools in alleviating poverty. The paper, Microfinance: Development Aid tool is analyzing whether microfinance institutions provide, beside the credit services, also preventive antimalarial services so as to lower malaria cases. Theoretical part is focused on definition and familiarization with 'microfinance, development aid and malaria' terms. Practical part analyses the malaria problem in connection with microfinance market and microfinance organizations in the three above mentioned countries.
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Dreams and Present Reality of Microfinance
Bizoňová, Jana ; Ducháčková, Eva (advisor) ; Daňhel, Jaroslav (referee)
Microcredit is now regarded as one of the most effective weapons in the fight against the poverty. The word "microfinance" itself became worldwide known in 2006, when both Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank were awarded the Nobel Piece Prize. The thesis aims to provide a complex picture of the microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus, the emergence of modern microfinance as well as different approaches to microfinance. These subtasks are used to fulfill the main goal of this work - to acquaint a reader with the main differences between the original concept of microfinance and its present practice.
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Providing of development assistance trough microcredits
Rippl, Josef ; Kalínská, Emílie (advisor) ; Ashraf, Shahed Jamal (referee)
The objective of this bachelor's thesis is microfinance in the developing world. The goal was to determine whether microfinance is viable alternative to development assistance. First part of the thesis is concerned with analyzing developing countries and is trying to explain reasons behind their low performance. Next is a description of different versions of the development assistance. The main part of the thesis is focused on the history of microfinance, the main principles of their functioning and explaining the process of the provision of microcredit. It shows what are the benefits of microfinance for their users, but also criticizes microfinance. A closer look at microfinance in practice is demonstrated in an example of the Bangladeshi Grameen Bank, the oldest microfinance institution in the world. In this part, two lending programs and their rules are described: Grameen I and Grameen II.
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Microfinance institutions in Mexico
Droščáková, Michaela ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Machytka, Daniel (referee)
The main aim of the bachelor thesis is to introduce the microfinance sector in Mexico. Firstly the concept of microfinance is generally described, then the microfinance sector in Latin America and in Mexico are characterized. The attention is paid to basic characteristics of the Mexican microfinance institutions. Five of them are chosen and closely described.
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Women status in sampled developing economies and its measurement
Pospíšilová, Jana ; Šaroch, Stanislav (advisor) ; Jarošová, Eva (referee)
The goal of this bachelor thesis is to reflect the impact of certain factors on the women status. The status is characterized by SIGI index created by OECD. Selected factors are from particular topics of education, transparency and mainly microfinance. The work presents these factors, overview about thirty observed countries and consequently offers models based on the least squares method. These models test set of hypothesis supporting the thesis objective.
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Microfinance
Pekař, Jan ; Zetek, Pavel (advisor)
The bachelor thesis parses the topic of microfinance. It provides information about the history and development of microfinance, as well as the emergence of different social attitudes and schools of thought. Also depicts the process of microfinance, from the investment decision, through the consumption of microcredit by an actual client, to final investment revenue. The thesis defines all the subjects involved in this process and describes the procedure. The analysis also refers about problems connected with microfinance, emphasizing lack of regulation and non-existing standards. The final part of the study offers possible solution of the situation, designed to lower costs of microfinance and at the same time higher it's reputation among public.
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