Focuses on semi-formal microfinance organizations. Provides recommendations regarding the legal and regulatory …

Provides a practical tool for the design and implementation of sustainable microfinance interventions, with a …

Focuses on semi-formal microfinance organizations. Provides recommendations regarding the legal and regulatory …

The microfinance industry in Vietnam, particularly those sponsored by nongovernment organisations (NGOs), has … interview process that incorporated various stakeholders including financial donors, NGO-sponsored microfinance institutions …

This report follows up on a 1996 UNDP survey of microfinance activity in Vietnam. The need was not simply because of … benefit. This report had highlighted a number of problems concerning microfinance in Vietnam. These concerns, however, should … of “social capital” in Vietnam are ripe for the rapid expansion of microfinance schemes along the lines of those in …

Microfinance institutions employ various kinds of incentive schemes but estimating the effect of each scheme is not … easy due to endogeneity bias. We conducted field experiments in Vietnam to capture the role of joint liability, monitoring …

In this paper we analyse the effects of microfinance programs upon household welfare in Vietnam. Our analytical … welfare effects of microfinance are proxied using measures of household income and consumption. The empirical results indicate … that participation in microfinance has a positive effect upon household welfare, with the size of the effect increasing at …