poverty alleviation and reducing unemployment has not been fully utilized. The main objective of this study is to provide an … an efficient strategy to provide permanent revenues and help solve the problems of poverty. Finally, cooperation between … mainstream international development agencies and waqf and zakat institutions could improve their capacity to reduce poverty and …

This paper takes full advantage of daily quoted prices of microfinance stocks from their issuance, and draws a global … picture of worldwide microfinance equity from the viewpoint of a profit-oriented investor. We construct microfinance country … equity indices and an international global microfinance index. We analyse the changes in these indices, which we assess in …

This study aims at assessing the impact of a microfinance institution serving micro-entrepreneurs in Antananarivo … (Madagascar). It starts by reviewing the recent literature on the socioeconomic impact of microfinance, then moves on to describe …

This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily … quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector …. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become less risky and more closely correlated with the financial sector …