, India, we find that "gung ho entrepreneurs" (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance …

key microfinance approaches in India, taking a close look at the most dominant among these, the Self Help Group (SHG) Bank …: India's rural poor currently have very little access to finance from formal sources. Microfinance approaches have tried to … microfinance approaches to coexist. Private sector microfinanciers need to acquire greater professionalism, and the government can …

effectiveness of sectoral interventions, and how the interventions in the agricultural sector and microfinance can be used to … agriculture sector and microcredit programmes in Bangladesh and around the world, how they were implemented and to the extent …

In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing … a new dimension for microfinance worldwide as microfinance institutions grew to include millions of clients. The start … substantial microfinance system based on Self-Help Groups (SHGs) developed. Other countries of the region made slower and later …

The Review suggests the outlines of an architecture for microfinance in Fiji in which the National Centre for Small and … technical assistance for microfinance institutions. But to assure a sound financial sector building approach to policy it is … sector and proposes that in addition to the role of NCSMED as the domestic focal point for capacity-building, the World Bank …