The microfinance sector has room for pure for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs), non-profit organizations, and …

This paper describes a new index of the quality of the business environment for microfinance institutions (the Global … Microscope on the Microfinance Business Environment). Regressions are used to validate the index by linking it and its sub …-components to microfinance outcomes. The main findings are that the components of the index related to the supporting institutional …

, this study shows that NGOs are the best conduits of microfinance in SSA. …

Has microfinance become crisis-prone like other sources of finance? This paper provides empirical evidence on credit … growth patterns of microfinance institutions in the early 2000s. Results suggest that microfinance has become vulnerable to …

Microfinance is seen as a key development tool, and despite the current deepening crisis within the industry, it …’s empowerment, housing, job creation, and social cohesion. The available evidence shows that microfinance does harm, as well as good …

in the increasing homogenization of NGOs around the delivery of services, primarily microfinance services, and its shift …

With the rise in the number of for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs), commentators are asking whether the sector …

participate in the microfinance program. The analysis uses data from a quasi-experiment on BRAC’s ultra poor program in Bangladesh … make a significant impact on graduation to the microfinance program. The results are robust to correction for self …