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Micro-Finance: A Driver for Entrepreneurship

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Micro-finance lending has long been the answer to many rural developments around the world. It has successfully led to women empowerment and helped in enhancing the socio-economic status of women globally. Development policies and programs have often ignored women as the integral source in alleviating the growth process. The study thus examines the impact of handicrafts on the socio-economic status of women in Pakistan. It also focuses on the role played by micro-finance institutions in enabling women's micro-entrepreneurship. Women are successfully achieving a high social and economic status in countries like Pakistan through earnings from handicrafts' industry. The data is analyzed quantitatively, using inferential statistics to support the descriptive analysis. Results of the findings showed that handicrafts prove to be improving the socio-economic status of women in Pakistan and micro-finance has been at its backbone.

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  • Asma Salman, 2018. "Micro-Finance: A Driver for Entrepreneurship," Chapters, in: Silvio Manuel Da Rocha Brito (ed.), Entrepreneurship - Trends and Challenges, IntechOpen.
    • Handle: RePEc:ito:pchaps:128641
    DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.75031
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    micro-finance; women beneficiaries; chi-square; entrepreneurship;
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    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

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