This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality … microfinance in reducing inequality at the macro level. Moreover, our results suggest that microfinance loans can lead to improve … recommendations to policymakers, as they could generate suitable strategies to consider microfinance institutions as a more popular …

the formation of microfinance institutions in Ireland. The focus of this study is the expansion of a hybrid organisational … understand Irish microfinance in the early nineteenth century, a period of profound socio-economic and socio-religious change. It … seeks to explain the factors that motivated the establishment and de-establishment of microfinance institutions amidst this …

We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing … to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at …

We suggest an explanation for the existence of "mission drift", the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to …

In the decade before the Great Famine, Ireland experienced a boom in microfinance institutions (MFIs). Taking a social … turbulent period in Irish history. Many contemporary writers saw microfinance as a legal means that could lessen the burden on …

addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the …

population, with the aim of improving that impact. We analyze over 18,000 women micro-finance clients of the Negros Women for … change in poverty score. -- micro-finance ; Grameen ; poverty ; quantile regression …

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this …

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability … be robust using sensitivity analysis and Rosenbaum bounds method. -- Microfinance ; Vulnerability ; Poverty ; Self Help …