moral hazard and imperfect consumer monitoring. In deciding whether to maintain information regarding product origin, firms …

Group lending has been widely adopted in the past thirty years by many microfinance institutions as a means to mitigate …

, planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation. Finally, there was a need for the institutionalization of effective … measures for tracking changes in the role of evidence in strategic, gender-sensitive planning, through regular monitoring and …

The initial success of microfinance programs in the 1970s led pioneers to think that many essential problems of the … be done. Most microfinance institutions (MFIs) are still small and vulnerable to constraints on their resources and to … some MFIs. The overall goal was to clarify the conditions under which state investment in microfinance programs might …

interventions. It then goes on to discuss what was learned about the impact of microfinance, educational transfer, and agricultural … technology development programs from the life-history narratives. The life-history interviews show that microfinance services are … income-generating activity at some time. Microfinance contributed to at least one of the three or four most important causes …

, the microfinance industry is giving more attention to building their customers’ financial capabilities, designing products …