Four distinct types of microfinance institutions are operating in the countries of North and Central Asia credit unions, non governmental organization MFIs, commercial banks and microfinance banks.

Microfinance institutions in South Asia have experimented with various microfinance schemes, such as the provision of credit and savings programmes targeting poor women, the mobilization of voluntary savings, the promotion of self help groups and the involvement of private investment in microfinance.

Bangladesh, for example, has adapted its financial regulations for microfinance institutions.

Nevertheless, the region still faces challenges in enhancing the contribution of microfinance initiatives to ensuring further poverty reduction, including the sustainability of microfinance, a lack of accountability and transparency and qualitative and quantitative assessment of the impact of microfinance on poverty reduction policies.

Indian regulators are sorting out the tangle of issues that have plunged India s microfinance industry into crisis.

Of the 179 validated microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Asia, 144 are in South Asia, and half of them are in Bangladesh alone.

It further called for microfinance and credit for micro , small and medium sized enterprises, including in rural areas, particularly for women, as well as for social and gender budget policies.

Indeed, the financial pragmatism of working class and poor women is the reason for the successes in the developing world of micro financing that puts money in their hands.

The projects vary in scope and cover a broad set of issues ranging from capacity building in agricultural production and horticulture to income generating activities and microcredit.

The projects vary in scope and cover a broad set of issues ranging from bee keeping, food processing, health issues, microcredit and other capacity building initiatives.

The Asian Development Bank is in the process of completing the final infrastructure rehabilitation project for roads and bridges, funded by the Trust Fund for East Timor, and the micro finance project.

But the counter argument is that professionally run private microcredit is better than no credit at all the situation most of the poor confront.

Practitioners in the first group idolize NGO leaders like Mohammad Yunus, whose Grameen Bank pioneered microfinance, and Ela Bhatt, a founder of India s Self Employment Women s Association (SEWA).

Migrants remittance behavior is essentially dictated by the regulatory environment and the quality in terms of speed, cost, security, and accessibility of products and services offered by banks, money transfer companies, micro finance institutions, and informal operators.

The Crisis of Microfinance

Microfinance has gained in importance in poverty reduction efforts undertaken by developing countries in the ESCAP region, illustrated by the range of such initiatives that can be seen within the region.

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Prominent among these was the UNWRA microfinance programme, which disbursed some 15,000 loans valued at over 17 million to small businesses, maintaining a repayment rate of over 90 per cent.

2. Welcomes the successful observance of the International Year of Microcredit, 2005, which constituted a special occasion to raise awareness and share best practices and lessons learned on microcredit and microfinance

Finally, there is the issue of microfinance itself.

1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary General on the observance of the International Year of Microcredit, 2005, and on the role of microcredit and microfinance in the eradication of poverty A 61 307.

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Consider the frequent refrain that Yunus is the pioneer of the microfinance movement.

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Yet PMFIs had succeeded by meeting a genuine need. Only 50 of India s roughly 1,000 microfinance institutions are private (as opposed to NGOs), but the top four PMFIs account for 80 of the market.

PMFIs are lending in a market vitiated by a populist political culture.

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Recognizing that microcredit and microfinance programmes can generate productive self employment and assist people in eradicating poverty and reducing their social and economic vulnerability,

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Recognizing further that the majority of the world's poor still do not have access to financial services and that microcredit and microfinance are the subject of significant demand worldwide,

Microfinance its advent, rise, and recent crises shows how.

Despite these successes, however, microfinance has struggled recently in India.

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Microfinance in poverty reduction challenges in Asia and the Pacific