Microfinance aims at providing basic financial services such as loans, savings and insurance to socially and … microfinance. Microcredit supplies financial means to start up businesses and to finance microenterprises. Microfinance originated … presents the relevance, efficiency and impact of microfinance policy and its policy instruments with respect to support for …

In a number of European countries microfinance evolved from informal beginnings during the eighteenth and nineteenth …, microfinance meant financial intermediation between microsavings and microcredit, and was powered by intermediation. Legal … century when microfinance became part of the formal banking sector. In Germany, the former microfinance institutions now …

Following the recent global financial crisis there is a growing interest in alternative finance – and microfinance in … considers microfinance from a legal and regulatory perspective. Microfinance is the provision of a wide range of financial …), this further complicating the regulatory picture. The book describes some of the unique dimensions of microfinance and the …

Microfinance is one of th ... …

analyses the impact of these interest rate caps on microfinance institutions. Introducing the taxonomy of soft, mezzo and hard … instrument to distinguish between the different service levels and industry environments in which microfinance institutions … of the informal credit sector, and furthering the microfinance institution's mission drift. In Pt. V. we also show that …