Recent evidence suggests only modest social and economic impacts of microfinance. Favorable cost-benefit ratios then … depend on low costs. This paper uses proprietary data on 1,335 microfinance institutions between 2005 and 2009, jointly … serving 80.1 million borrowers, to calculate the costs of microfinance and other elements of the microfinance business model …

legal system and policy framework that incorporates microfinance. In most cases, these countries have adopted specialized … sections that follow. This study is divided into four sections with three annexes. The first section explores microfinance in … transformation. Macroeconomic and microfinance specific data for each of the countries has been compiled in tables in annex one …

In the fall of 2008, the Moroccan microfinance sector underwent what in economics is referred to as a Minsky moment … portfolios of the country's four largest Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), and one in particular - Zakoura. This study picks up … meant to cover the full Moroccan microfinance sector, due to constraints of time and availability of data, its primary focus …

constrained. This paper analyses whether, and how, micro-finance supports a large public health subsidy program in the developing … cluster randomised controlled experiment of a sanitation micro-finance program that coincided with the launch of the SBM …

Safety (BIGRS) on 867 km of national roads in Thailand and 258 km of streets in Bangkok, between 2015 and 2019. This also … two case studies on different road types in Thailand - the Outer Ring Road and Hathai Rat Road in Bangkok - to demonstrate …

A general equilibrium modeling approach is used to estimate the effects within Thailand of unilateral and global trade …-reducing within Thailand, whether other countries participate in the liberalization or not. This poverty reduction occurs among both …

The World Bank initiated a review of HIV prevention among injection drug users in Thailand, with the objective of … interventions. Thailand has received international recognition for its successful interventions to reduce the transmission of HIV … that include the extensive promotion and wide acceptance of condoms as an HIV prevention strategy. Thailand has the most …