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