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The study was conducted to analyze the effects of microfinance on the poverty alleviation and reduction in rural areas of the upper Sindh. The data was collected from 30 respondents through an interview guide. The respondents were the clients of microfinance institutions through a different period of time. The results were processed through using Nvivo 10. We reached the conclusion that microfinance facilities do have positive impact of the increase in income level of the people who have taken these facilities. And there is difference in their lives before and after taking finance from the microfinance institutions. People who have taken microfinance have been observed having better income than those who have not taken such facilities.

An implication of work-life balance on career development in health sector at Khairpur Mir’s is ascertained in this study. There were 30 participants from various public sector health organizations, from which 14 respondents were observed via interviews and 16 people took active part in questionnaire survey. Interview & questionnaire survey was based on structured style having 15 items that measured the level of work-life balance and its impact on certain defined variables. Whereas work-life balance is independent variable and career development is dependent variable. Impact of work-life on career development is observed via five variables of work-life, named as: Work, Pay, Job security, Family life & entertainment. Cronbach’s alpha is obtained and data is processed in Nvivo 10 software to get results. Three queries are run in Nvivo 10 namely: Text search query, word frequency query & matrix coding query, to get the results and to know the relation of variables to one another. Work-life with its variables has the effective relation with career development. It is observed in the results that there is optimistic relation among variables taken. This research is a qualitative study and is taken in health sector at Khairpur Mir’s.