Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …

The inspiring growth of the microfinance industry, not least in Asia, has been seen to emerge as a major force … supporting poverty alleviation. This paper analyzes the microfinance industry in two developing Asian countries, from the … establishment of an effective microfinance framework in the two countries, and attempts to uncover and explain the underlying …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are often seen by aid practitioners as a manifestly effective means of improving the … rigorously, but in both regions the evidence that microfinance is reaching the core poor is very limited. …