countries after an aggregate income shock. The analysis is based on a data set in which the customer data of the microfinance … microfinance institution. The results support the hypothesis that especially transaction lending contributes to the problem of …

borrowing groups of the microfinance institutions Constanta (Georgia) and FORA (Russia), this study describes to what extent … individual lending mechanism - based on the experience of 130 borrowers of the Microfinance Bank of Georgia – shows that there …

Microfinance institutions are important, particularly in developing countries, because they expand the frontier of … the first systematic statistical examination of the performance of MFIs operating in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. A …

This thesis presents and compares the performance of two recently developed classification methods namely the Spatial …

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 … of six years (annual), this study has identified thedeterminants of sustainability and outreach of MFIs. In addition, the … and outreach.The results indicate that sustainability is positively and significantly driven by real effectivelending …

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 … MFIs in Mozambique between 2005 and 2009, this study explores the scope and patterns of outreach programmes as an essay in …