is inappropriate in the urban context where a large percentage of microfinance organisations in the developing world …

lending or similarly micro-finance are examples of such alternative lending contracts. In this paper, we investigate the … effect of mutual guarantee institutions (MGI) on loan interest rates. We argue that, similarly to group lending and micro-finance …

Micro-Finance is emerging as a powerful instrument for poverty alleviation in the new economy. In India, micro-Finance … artisans" and "economically weaker sections" have been used to broadly define micro-finance customers. Research across the … globe has shown that, over time, microfinance clients increase their income and assets, increase the number of years of …

We trace the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance in microfinance institutions (MFI …

The objective of fight against poverty was at the origin of the creation of the institutions of microfinance (IMF …. Today, certain authors underline the limits of the microfinance and question its impact on the development. What happens … really? What do the impact studies learn on the contribution from the microfinance to the poverty reduction in the developing …

results prove that rural microfinance institutions, rather rural microfinance network can be viable. It is just a matter of …