TABLE OF CONTENTS
DECLARATION
APPROVAL ii
DEDICATION iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv
CHAPTER ONE 2
INTRODUCTION 2
1. lBackground of the study 2
1.2 Statement of the problem 4
1.3 Purpose of the study 5
1.3.2 Specific objectives 5
1.4 Research questions 6
1.5 scope of the study 6
1.6 Significance of the study 6
1.7 Limitations of the Study 7
CHAPTER TWO 8
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE 8
2.0 Introduction 8
2.1 The poverty concept 8
2.3 Microfinance and poverty 9
2.4 To help the poor out of poverty 10
2.5 Methodology of Microfinance 11
CHAPTER THREE 14
METHODOLOGY 14
3.0 Introduction 14
3.1 Research design 14
3.2 Study population 14
3.3 sample size and selection 14
3.4 sources of data and data collection methods 15
3.5 Data processing and analysis 15
CHAPTER FOUR 17
PRESENTATION INTERPRETATION AND DISCUSSION OF THE
FINDINGS 17
4. 1 DemographiC Characteristics of Respondents 17
CHAPTER FIVE 32
SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 32
REFERENCES 36
