Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …

addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the …

Nigeria has recorded impressive growth in the last decade, yet the impact of this growth on poverty reduction remains … unclear. This paper appraises spatial and temporal non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the first …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …-using comparable datasets, the Nigeria Demographic and Health Surveys of 1999, 2003, and 2008 for national, regional, and zonal … analysis, and the Harmonized Nigeria Living Standard Survey of 2008/09 as well as the Nigeria Living Standard Survey of 2003 …

The paper investigates the impact of infrastructural development on poverty reduction in Nigeria. Specifically, the …

While microfinance institutions (MFIs) are increasingly important as employers in the developing world, there is little …

Whereas most research into microfinance tends to focus on the impact of access to such services, very little pays … as most microfinance institutions foster client retention and apply a progressive lending policy. Moreover, as previous … analysed from a gender perspective. The work is based on a case study about the main Tunisian microfinance institution using …

Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female …. We fill this gap by combining data on branch locations of the major microfinance institutions in Bangladesh with …

This paper examines the combined effect of interest rates and poverty levels of microfinance clients on loan size … poverty level is suggested in targeting and sustaining microfinance clients. -- interest rate ; sensitivity ; loan ; poor … ; microfinance ; Ghana …