In 2005, Uganda’ government fundamentally shifted the direction of its microfinance (MF) policy. Hitherto it had … direction served the objectives of Uganda’s politicians to maintain political power, as it offered them an avenue to create …

recent years microfinance has emerged as an important instrument to relieve poverty in the developing countries. Today there … countries where the proportion of people in poverty is high. The existing microfinance in Nigeria serves less than 1 million …Today widespread poverty is one of the major problems of mankind and its alleviation one of her major agendas. In …

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 … household panel data. As an example, it presents an estimation of the net number of people that rose above the $1/day poverty …

This paper investigates the role of public expenditures and general government debt in microfinance performance. Our … panel regression applied to the data of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean confirms the …, are characterized by higher rate of social efficiency. The positive influence on microfinance is besides public finance …

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

microfinance in poverty alleviation efforts in Bangladesh and how this role can be enhanced. It was intended to establish and … recommend Islamic microfinance and its principles that could raise poverty reduction and economic development in the country …. Especially, this paper tries to answer the following questions: Can Islamic microfinance help alleviate poverty? Should Islamic …

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

This paper shows that government of India supported microfinance programme under SGSY scheme is partially effective to … reduce poverty of the rural households. Few expansion of National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme plays here the supportive … role. Taking the help of Natural Experiment it is also proved that microfinance programme is also able to reduce …

The present paper aims to adduce succinctly the reasons and arguments sustaining female-targeting microfinance programs …, predominantly because of their capacity of offering an effective and operational tool against poverty. The herewith paper basically … microfinance, through stressing its economical and social dimensions and consequences - while contributing to enhance the holistic …