Summary The objective of the present study is to examine whether household access to microfinance reduces poverty …

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 …

-sustainability of microfinance institutions has been disadvantageous to the target audience. We investigate the association between … social efficiency and financial performance using a comprehensive data set that includes 650 microfinance institutions. A …

effectuate this potential, many business development programs (BDPs), particularly focusing on microfinance and training, were …

This paper investigates why and under which institutional circumstances female membership in microfinance institutions … institutional conditions. We draw upon unique qualitative and quantitative data covering 26 microfinance projects in 22 African …, Eastern European, Latin American, and Asian countries. This study has implications for the microfinance literature in that it …

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

Most of the customers of microfinance institutions are female. But do men and women benefit from the same credit … comprising 34,000 loan applications from a Brazilian microfinance institution. The model determines the optimal loan size fixed …

Reaching the poorest is an important objective in many development interventions, and microfinance is no exception. We … dataset from a community-managed microfinance intervention in Northern Malawi, we find regressive targeting: Participants are …

The mission of microfinance is generally perceived as compensation for the failure of the mainstream financial …