On The Demonstration Effect Of The Undp Microfinance Projects And The Impact On China

The thesis started with briefing on UNDP's assistance to China, highlighting Poverty Alleviation ( PA) as the top priority area of technical assistance to China. Then the thesis raised the main problems hindering the realization of 8-7 Poverty Reduction Programme, namely the incapability of targeting the poor, low repayment rate as well as low efficiency for using PA loans. The thesis answered why UNDP Microfinance (MF) projects could solve these problems by elaborating UNDP projects' features and operating procedure through theory and practice. As a result, UNDP assisted China in realize its 8-7 Plan on time. Meanwhile, UNDP has also made contributions in introducing human poverty concept, developing participatory PA planning methodology at village and county level as well as pioneering sustainable Microfinance in China. The conclusion is that UNDP has not only played an active role in assisting China in realization its 8-7 Poverty Reduction Programme through demonstration of MF model as an effective tool to target the poor, but also made contributions by introducing new concepts and providing references in aspects of PA policy-making, management and practice for our PA departments at various levels. All of these have made positive impacts on China's PA work and policies.