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 …, what is in vogue in mainstream analysis is the financial sustainability of MFIs throughout the world, especially in Africa …

present estimates of this parameter derived from a randomized trial. The experiment was implemented by a consumer microfinance … lender in South Africa and identifies demand curves that, while downward-sloping with respect to price, are flatter than …

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 …

teenstelling met die kritici van ontwikkelingsteun wat handhaaf dat steun wat aan ontwikkelende lande, veral in Afrika, gegee word …

the economy. For over a long time the delivery of infrastructure in Africa has been the domain of the public sector … very low in Africa. The research noted that certain obstacles at macro level of the economy are responsible for the low … used to attract private sector participation in infrastructure delivery in Africa. One method that is gaining popularity in …

suggestions. Perceptions were drawn from commerciallenders/investors of microfinance programmes based in Africa. Needless to say …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 …