Access to Financial Services and Women Empowerment, throughMicrofinance eligibility

The new movement of microfinance backs to the foundation of Grameen Bank in Bangladesh by Professor Muhammad Yunus in 1970. Since then, Microfinance is considered as an effective and powerful tool in poverty eradication, especially in developing countries. It helps the entrepreneurial poor, especially women, by facilitating the access to financial resources and provides a better life condition by increasing the household revenues and job creation for them. There is increased recognition of the importance of empowering poor people and helping them to become more productive in society they are living. Poverty alleviation can be achieved by increasing the access of the poor to all factors of production, including credit. Enhancing the quality of life of the poor so that they can have a sustainable future is not just a social responsibility of the governments and NGOs. Still, it is a prerequisite for global peace and development. This paper aims to describe the concept and the importance of Microfinance over the living standards and women empowerment under the complicated political and economic situation using previous Literature Reviews. In the end, our findings showed that people tend to have a positive perception of Microfinance. However, most perceive microfinance as the process of just providing loans without specifying for whom it is intended. We advise that the government introduces laws to regulate the microfinance market.