study has been to estimate the efficiency of microfinance institutions in Pakistan. Non parametric Data Envelopment analysis …Microfinance collectively refers to the supply of loans, savings accounts, and other basic financial services like … (Morduch J. 1999). Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are special financial institutions. They have both a social nature and a …

This article presents a practical methodology to monitor poverty changes among microfinance clients using available … microfinance practitioners to verify whether their clients are moving out of poverty and validate management strategies aiming to …

The Pakistan's Poverty Reduction Strategy and the Draft Medium Term Development Framework recognize that the most … these objectives can be made operational by examining the characteristics of the labour market in Pakistan. The first part … played a vital if not a decisive role in influencing poverty levels in Pakistan. The second part of the paper reviews the …

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 …

which could improve their lives. For this study, our theoretical a priori expectation is that provision of microfinance … reinforcement of the microfinance mechanism to propagate a soothing trend for poverty reduction and economic growth. …

Microfinance across the globe is being practiced as a tool to mitigate poverty and chiefly as an empowerment tool to …