agency role, and the other as a lead innovator in rural microfinance. Also suggested is a substantial revision of the usury …

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 …

remarkable; specialized microfinance institutions; and, partnerships between private Banks,, micro-financiers, and service …

effectiveness of sectoral interventions, and how the interventions in the agricultural sector and microfinance can be used to …

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 …

The rural space is home to 53 percent of Nigeria's population and more than 70 percent of its poor. While it is well … understood in Nigeria that financial exclusion of the rural population stunts development, still fewer than 2 percent of rural … inequality. While Nigeria's own long history with rural finance shows a clear appreciation for the importance of rural access …