Payment Facilities, Home Businesses and Poverty Eradication

Mohammad Zakeri

Abstract


Poverty eradication, reduction of vulnerability and empowerment of women are known from the effects of financial service delivery to vulnerable people, especially poor women. Theoretically, these investment services enable target groups to micro-businesses, to increase human capital and promotion of community capabilities to provide increased household welfare and the ability of vulnerable people to cope with economic losses hence improving the design of mechanisms to deliver financial services to the poor and vulnerable are the central focus of poverty reduction programs costs. One of the most successful microfinance mechanisms to be considered in this field and in recent years, a special place among programs has to reduce poverty and improve livelihoods in many countries. In Iran, Payment facilities plans households is ongoing to women-headed that are discussed in this article.

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