demand for credit by poor people who cannot guarantee financial collateral and stable revenues. Microfinance institutions … of microfinance programmes in industrialized countries. Considering this, we have developed in this paper an in …-depth analysis of French institutions of microfinance and an econometric analysis on the personal and social characteristics of their …

microfinance. En raison d'un biais de sélection, la procédure en deux étapes du modèle de sélection d'Heckman a été utilisée sur un … échantillon de 277 institutions de microfinance notées entre 2001 et 2007 et 214 non notées. La note obtenue, la performance et la …

activités.En conclusion, il semble que, dans la majorité des cas, la microfinance crée un filet de sécurité évitant ainsi des …

's capability framework approach, exploring a relevant empirical issue: microfinance. Microfinance appears more and more as a tool … for women's empowerment. Available results of impact studies call for circumspection; microfinance can free women from … certain links of dependence. But microfinance can also forge new kinds of dependence and subordination, thereby strengthening …