microfinance struggle to become financially self-sufficient and to achieve their social objectives of servicing with quality the … poorest clientele possible. The issue of corporate governance has therefore been of increasing interest for microfinance as it … constitutes governance in relation to microfinance; (ii) identify the reasons why it is of such high importance for the industry …

Numerous microfinance initiatives around the world aim to alleviate poverty in developing countries. However, debate … community, which contribute about $9.4 billion to microfinance funding. In this policy-oriented article we aggregate findings … from two studies in Indonesia that help explain why moneylending can still thrive when low-interest microfinance is widely …

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 …

This paper investigates the relative importance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) at both the macro (financial …

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 …