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.
Micro-financing programmes have had some impact on rural life for women without land.
The majority of micro-insurance programmes in Asia are life and accident insurance plans, which reached nearly 84 million and 78 million people respectively.
Field studies have found that 17% of people taking part in micro-loan programmes were receiving welfare at the start of the year in question.
We introduced better ways to grow the food the local people wanted, micro-credit programmes especially for women, sustainable use of water, better health facilities, and environmental education programmes to provide information about the forest and its inhabitants.
The most effective method for expanding micro-credit programmes will be very different from that required to nurture new experiments in democracy, but both are vital for successful development.
The government says it is aware of the need to protect low-income households and has announced plans to bring in extended repayment windows and micro-credit programmes to help off-set the tightening of liquidity.
These services, known as the family package, provide everything from home visits to micro-credit programmes and psychosocial support.
They took up Tarayana's micro credit programme to access 100.000 BTN (US$1,500) to purchase a power tiller.
In project areas, there was need to be strongly linked with other programs that could assist in alleviating the underlying causes (e.g. School-feeding Programme, Micro-financing Programmes).
