Gender Equality Through Microcredit Financing: Evidence from Urban Malaysia

  • Najlah Jabbar Jaafar
  • Jaafar Sadeq Mohsin Alwazni
Palabras clave: AIM, Women, Household, Expenditure, Malaysia

Resumen

Microfinance got to be a buzzword within the small loan marketplaces as a viable device for destitution lessening and financial advancement. However, the affect is still addressed and change from one nation to others and from urban to provincial. The point of this paper is to look at the part of Malaysian microfinance (AIM) on ladies’ family prosperity. A cross-sectional overview met 340 of ancient clients who joined microfinance plot in 2010 and modern clients those joined plot in 2014 and have not utilized their advances. The stratified random method was utilized to gather information. The result of this ponder recommends that Point has positive affect on ladies’ family prosperity particularly in consumption.

Biografía del autor/a

Najlah Jabbar Jaafar
Assistant Lecturer, Accounting techniques Department, Technical In- stitute of Basra - Southern Technical University
Jaafar Sadeq Mohsin Alwazni
Assistant Lecturer, Accounting techniques Department, Technical Institute of Basra - Southern Technical University

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2019-07-30
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