While the MFI model of microfinance is unsustainable, the SHG-Bank Linkage approach can make a positive impact on … security and empowerment of the disadvantaged. Much more than microfinance is needed to overcome the problems that have … rural credit in India in form of microfinance. And there is need for improved governance to manage challenges for future so …

This study is based on the results of the non-monetary poverty estimation of the beneficiaries of microfinance in Mali … microfinance program could involve a reduction in the poverty gap between men and women beneficiaries. …

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 paper not only addresses how linkages, direct and facilitating linkages, can benefit microfinance institutions …, could increase the desired effects, efficiency and impact of microfinance in selected jurisdictions. In so doing, it …

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

microfinance models of lending offer considerably lower costs of borrowing than those in regular models of direct lending by banks …. The study opines that microfinance model of lending can provide cost-efficient model of financial intermediation for …