some measures whichcan enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of microfinance as an instrumentfor reducing rural poverty … microfinance systemoperating within the appropriate legal and policy framework, the rural poormay be able to get out of the chronic … general, rural poverty in particular and microfinance services andinstitutions in the developing countries (using the cases of …

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of developments in the microfinance sector beforeand after the Lehman Brothers … countries. Thefindings indicate that microfinance has been part of the same credit boom observed in the traditionalbanking … raises the question whether the crisis resiliencethe microfinance sector has shown in the past remains a characterizing …

uncertainty and investment;ultimately this relationship is theoretically ambiguous. Using loan-level panel data from microfi…nance …

Microfinance continues to play an ever increasing role in approaches topoverty alleviation around the world. Yet … mystery. From its inception, microfinance generated agreat deal of interest from economic theorists. Influential papers from …

This paper analyzes the theoretical underpinnings of high-frequency repayment, a featurein nearly all microfi…nance …