ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Uncertainty of continued donor funding poses a risk to microfinance operations worldwide, and … thisstudy explores the circumstances under which African microfinance institutions (MFIs) will considercommercial funding as a … microfinance institutions grow, they increasingly findthemselves in need of additional capital to finance expansion of services to …

Using an econometric approach on panel data collected from 53 microfinance institutions(MFIs) in Uganda over a period … credit co-operative (SACCO) compared to being a privatecompany, effectiveness of governance, the age of an MFI, the ratio of …

growth and poverty alleviation. Microfinance is seen as one of the effective tools that can address poverty alleviation by … engaging the poor in sustainable economic activities. Microfinance services have existed in Namibia since the late 1990s, yet … they have not attained growth.The main providers of microfinance services consist mainly of Micro-lenders, Non …

In the microfinance discourse, sustainability can relate to organisational, managerial and financial aspects. However …

This paper measures profit efficiency and examines the effect of access to microfinance on theperformance of rice firms … models. After effectively correcting forselectivity bias, the mean profit efficiency of the microfinance borrowers and non …

The price elasticity of demand for credit has major implications for macroeconomics, finance, and development. We … present estimates of this parameter derived from a randomized trial. The experiment was implemented by a consumer microfinance …

Information asymmetries are important in theory but difficult to identify in practice. We estimate the empirical … importance of adverse selection and moral hazard in a consumer credit market using a new field experiment methodology. We … generates unique evidence on the existence and magnitudes of specific credit market failures. We find evidence of both adverse …

-laboratory settings. Furthermore, important questions persist about whether social capital can help solve seemingly missing credit markets … whether behavior in the games predicts repayment of loans to a Peruvian group lending microfinance program. Since the …

commercial banks, rural financial institutions and microfinance institutions in China. The first pairwise comparison indicated …