With maturity in the microfinance market in South Asia, it is observed that some microfinance members' needs grow … beyond the boundaries of traditional microfinance group loans. In addition, there are other small enterprises whose needs are … not met by microfinance institutions or commercial banks. It is important to address the financing needs of these firms …

arising from the undeniable specificity of the entire SME sector and large companies operating in Poland. …

foster SME lending and attention has focused on improving the institutional environment, such that the financial system is … more willing to lend to SMEs. In this paper, we directly ask banks (the main providers of SME external finance) what … and retail sectors. They perceive the SME market as highly profitable, large, and with good prospects. Moreover, banks are …

Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … greater impact on empowering women. Using household survey data on SHG from India, a general structural model is adopted where …

This paper analyses the welfare effects of microfinance and inflation in developing countries. Therefore, we introduce … microfinance institution induces peer monitoring, which in turn enables entrepreneurship. Our main result is that there exists an … inflation threshold beyond which entrepreneurship collapses. We show that inflation affects the impact of microfinance on social …

Microfinance is typically associated with joint liability of group members. However, a large part of microfinance … contracts. Moreover, we show that microfinance institutions offer group loans when the loan size is rather large, refinancing … costs are high, and competition between microfinance institutions is low. Otherwise, individual loans are offered …

This paper discusses the so-called commercial approach to microfinance under economic and ethical aspects. It first … shows how microfinance has developed from a purely welfare-oriented activity to a commercially relevant line of banking … microfinance in the course of the last decade. As the author argues, this commercial approach is the only sound approach to adopt …

This paper examines whether recently introduced village funds", one of the largest microfinance programs ever …