Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are alternative financial providers offering financial services to people typically … developing microfinance sector in Europe; however, very little literature exists on this MFI segment. In this paper, we analyze …

In recent years, in addition to financial and social objectives, the microfinance industry has started to look at its … environmental bottom line. The objective of this paper is to identify why microfinance institutions (MFIs) decide to go green. Data …

In recent years, development practice has seen that microfinance institutions (MFIs), beyond their financial and social …’ MFIs on a sample of 160 microfinance institutions worldwide. Basing our analysis on various econometric tests, we find that … environmental performance, suggesting that ‘green’ MFIs are not more or less profitable than other microfinance institutions. …

This paper shines light on subsidy-dependent microfinance institutions (MFIs). Firstly, our model shows that subsidy …

This paper starts from the observation that 23% of the world’s microfinance institutions (MFIs) manage without …

This paper sheds light on a poorly understood phenomenon in microfinance which is often referred to as a “mission drift …”: A tendency reviewed by numerous microfinance institutions to extend larger average loan sizes in the process of scaling …–oriented microfinance institutions could potentially deviate from their mission by extending larger loan sizes neither because of …

private good, self-managed civil society organizations propose an alternative way of managing financial services. Brazil … research in Brazil, this article uses the Elinor Ostrom's design principles of successful self-governing common-pool resource …

This study explores the social entrepreneurial potential of the rule-breaking practices of microfinance programs …’ beneficiaries. We empirically apply the positive theory of social entrepreneurship that views social entrepreneurship as a pursuit …

short cases to indicate how a social problem was addressed by a social innovation by entrepreneurial actions by microfinance …The paper presents a social innovation as an innovative business model with new social relations and indicates a few …

Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) provide loans to low income individuals. The credit scoring systems of MFIs, if they … credit officers’ experience and addresses incomplete and intangible information. The model has been tested in a microfinance …