Leftists want to talk about specific micro programmes they want to build up without ever discussing the macro bill for all of them.
Instead, Channel 4 cut budgets as confidence in the ability of arts programmes to attract audiences shrank, and its role as a patron was largely reduced to making do with sporadic forays such as the micro-programme strand, Random Acts, or events such as overnight house music parties.
They took up Tarayana's micro credit programme to access 100.000 BTN (US$1,500) to purchase a power tiller.
Thus, the post-apartheid South African government's economic programmes of black empowerment, small-scale micro financing programmes and land (and other assets) redistribution programmes are likely to increase the number of households with the ability to purchase health insurance policies.
Public-housing initiatives have begun, as well as a model micro-finance programme.
With backing from the Inter-American DeveLimpiat Bank, Agua Lispia is currently focused on the micro-finance programme Crediagua which provides water and sanitation in rural and peri-urban areas, said representative Patricia Bautista.
Sometimes, they find these opportunities in interventions targeting women – like the micro-enterprise programme that offered one Afghan woman the chance to set up a hairdressing business: a space that allowed her to make money, but perhaps more importantly, to socialise with other women (pdf).
One good thing about micro-loans is that the mafia, which to varying degrees is active throughout Central and Eastern Europe, is not interested in taking a cut of such small-scale business.The EBRD's micro-lending programme, which is now well-established, channels lines of credit to local banks specially set up for the purpose.
The institute reckons that Crediamigo, the state-owned Banco do Nordeste's micro-credit programme, has lifted more than 1m north-easterners out of poverty.In this section Catching up in a hurry Where the kickbacks kick Red card ReprintsThe region's new-found buying power is attracting firms.
Early on, Chavez withdrew $20 billion of Venezuela's money leant to the US Federal Reserve, to create a giant micro-lending programme for his citizens.
Author: Chowdhury, A.M.R.; Nigam, A.; Shui-Meng, N. ; Fang J. Background The Social Development Programme for the Poor Areas (SPPA) in China is a micro-credit programme but with a special focus.
