This study examines the social collateral model for Islamic microfinance in Malaysia. Using qualitative instruments on … academics and officers of microfinance institutions as the sample study, this study identifies the components that should be … included in the social collateral model for Islamic microfinance. Based on interviews and focus group discussions, this study …

This study by Md. Mahmudul Alam and Professor Rafiqul Islam Molla on microfinance comes at the right time when the … microfinance movement has come under attack from various quarters. There are exaggerated claims and counter-claims about … microfinance's impact on poverty alleviation – one side claims to send poverty to the museum, the other claims that it causes and …

The microfinance movement that began as a programme of actionresearch in a small village by Professor Muhammad in 1976 …

promoting and serving survival and subsistence level economic activities, particularly for poor female clients. In Bangladesh …

borrowers in Bangladesh it is found that when self-employed family labor is paid wages at market rate, under the framework of … found to be low and marginal. Even then about 90% of the borrowers prefer taking microcredit from microfinance institutions …

Calculated under the framework of economic-profit counting, the productivity of microcredit in Bangladesh is found very …

The microcredit (MC) program of Bangladesh has been a well-known success story for generation of self-employment, and … Bank (GB) and the bank itself shared the Nobel peace prize. Although the GB is the pioneer of MC program in Bangladesh …, there are many other nongovernmental organizations (NGO)s that offer the same program in Bangladesh in different forms and …

Bangladesh or any such other country. In analyzing the effectiveness of microcredit program the microcredit providers (NGOs) use …