Is it possible for microfinance institutions to simultaneously pursue profits and poverty reduction? This study … explores this question by analyzing the impact of Khushhali Bank, the largest retail microfinance bank in Pakistan. Khushhali … the bank also had an impact on economic or social measures of poverty, including empowerment of poor women, or income …

accumulating on the impact of microfinance activities on poverty reduction. In particular we ask what is the evidence on three … poverty on a permanent basis; (2) the extent to which microfinance programs reach only the better-off amongst the poor … organizations and countries and in turn a vast number studies have attempted to assess the outreach and poverty impact of such …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are often seen by aid practitioners as a manifestly effective means of improving the … have been carried out more “rigorously”, but in both regions the evidence that microfinance is reaching the core poor is …

economies and contributed to long-term poverty. In this paper I combine data from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database and the …

This paper provides a brief but comprehensive overview of microfinance academic literature with emphasis on recent … innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as commercialization … reviewed literature underline the great improvement in the microfinance field that, however, has not reached its full potential …

This paper attempts to assess whether participation in a microfinance program helps households generate personal … savings, as distinct from savings through compulsory contributions to the program. We consider a microfinance program … participating in the microfinance program and a “control group” of non-participating households of similar characteristics. Using …

This study aims to assess the microfinance institutions’ (MFIs’) efficiency in the West African Economic and Monetary …