The aim of this chapter is, first, to provide the reader with basic knowledge about microfinance and how this is … identifies strategies to improve the current situation where few disabled people have access to microfinance. The overall … objective is to give the readers a background to understand better how microfinance can be used as a tool to reduce poverty for …

for reducing poverty and empowering poor people, few Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) recently started providing … microfinance to some selected economically active people with disabilities. However, very little evidence exists to show how people … with disabilitiesaccess microfinance. Therefore, the aim of this research is to identify the barriers or challenges that …

from the perspective of the disabled person. The study suggests that microfinance institutions (MFIs) should revise their …