Microfinance programs like the Self Help Bank Linkage Program in India have been increasingly promoted for their … between microfinance and women’s empowerment. This paper contributes by arguing that women empowerment takes place when women …

different underlying aims and understandings and different policy prescriptions and priorities in relation to both micro-finance …

The objective of this paper is to estimate the impacts of medium and long term participation in microfinance programs … estimates indicate that the benefits from microfinance vary more than proportionately with the duration of participation in a … basis for assessing the effectiveness of microfinance lending. …

This study is based on the results of the non-monetary poverty estimation of the beneficiaries of microfinance in Mali … microfinance program could involve a reduction in the poverty gap between men and women beneficiaries. …

Microfinance industry has grown massively in the past decades. Even if it is commonly considered as an … importantdevelopment tool, the evidence of the socio-economic impact of microfinance is mixed, regardless of what methodology hasbeen … applied. The purpose of this study is to assess the socio-economic impact of microfinance on the clients of amicrofinance …

Impact analysis of microfinance programmes is a useful tool both for improving the offered services and for … consumption. Furthermore, an increase in female empowerment clearly dependent on the participation to microfinance programme is …