IEMS Faculty Associate Prof. Sujata Visaria and colleagues explore how microfinance programmes can be fine-tuned to …

. Findings – Lenders who run the caisses populaires are not class or race biased; they understand how to make microfinance assist … structured to be socially inclusive. In fact, black microfinance lenders, as well as whitened local elites and foreigners, have a … socially conscious philosophy of using microfinance as a vehicle to ensure economic democracy for the masses. In doing this …

</titre> An increasing number of works on microfinance mention the social responsibility of private, public or mixed … organizations which deliver microfinance services. Their social responsibility has to be understood as a supply of financial … organization and program for their customers and their users, but also for the others actors of the microfinance sector they enter …

have to be reduced. Financial inclusion is an important priority and restrictions on microfinance should be avoided. The …'inclusion financière revêt une importance prioritaire et les restrictions relatives à la microfinance devraient être évitées. Il est …

governing the microfinance sector and client protection is also crucial for improving financial inclusion in Sri Lanka. Much …

Microfinance intervention is considered an important component of development strategy to mainstream the poor rural … households with the formal financial system in India. However, there is some evidence for the reverse, that microfinance may, in … and the type of microfinance model through a case study in Varanasi, U.P. Comparing two microfinance models prevalent in …

institutions relied upon have their own problems. On the other hand, microfinance institutions (MFIs), given their widespread reach …

The Banque de France organised a symposium on microfinance in July 2011. Based on the experience of Southern countries …, the participants stressed the usefulness of microfinance as an instrument for financial inclusion, economic development …

<p>This paper discusses the so-called commercial approach to microfinance under economic and ethical aspects. It first … shows how microfinance has developed from a purely welfare-oriented activity to a commercially relevant line of banking … business. The background of this stunning success is the almost universal adoption of the commercial approach to microfinance …