This book offers a critical perspective on the issues related to women’s empowerment, microfinance, and … microfinance, which has served the poor to become financially self-reliant. It is observed that for second generation borrowers …, the impact of microfinance seems to fizzle out, where MFIs who are gaining efficiency are diverting their objective of …

The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to … blight during the Great Famine of Ireland. The author argues that the worst affected districts with a microfinance fund …The book uses archival data to examine how access to micro-finance credit played a role in facilitating adjustment to …

: Aid modality equivalence of official debt relief to poor countries -- Chapter 3: The Impact of Microfinance on Household …, debt relief, microfinance, financial sustainability, tax buoyancy, Foreign Direct Investment, foreign capital flows, and …

microfinance in emerging markets. Microfinance has been hotly debated by ever-colliding camps of ardent supporters, who believe … that microfinance addresses credit market failures and provides a durable answer to the problem of the poverty, and staunch … critics, who argue that lending by microfinance institutions is wasteful, and the interest rates are too high. To bring …

analyses the results of the microcredit and microfinance programming activity, investigating its target groups and other … regulatory framework of the microcredit and microfinance sector. This book presents an in-depth analysis of structural funds and …

Growth, Employment and Rural Poverty -- Chapter 10: Microfinance and Rural Poverty -- Chapter 11: Regional Disparities in … trickle-down process and the inclusiveness of growth in rural India. It also evaluates the impact of microfinance, as an …