. While microfinance is supposed to address this problem through the promotion of viable businesses, it has not been very … microfinance institutions (MFIs), there have been very few that look at market conditions as an input into the success of micro …

value chain relationships: value chain microfinance (VCMF). We first explore how VCMF can both overcome barriers to … microfinance studying the demand for and effects of VCMF in credit, insurance, and savings markets. We conclude by highlighting …

Altruistic peer-to-peer lending, or crowd-sourced Internet microfinance, exposes a unique environment in which to … minimal, or in the case of Kiva.org, zero financial return. While significant microfinance research has chronicled the … lending, observing crowd-sourced microfinance and what online organizational structures facilitate cooperation. At the end of …

The main purpose of this paper is to compare the client satisfaction of faith-based and mainstream microfinance …' opinion. The data-set comprised of a total of 300 microfinance clients - 150 from faith-based microfinance institutions and … 150 from the mainstream microfinance institutions. The data was collected through a structured questionnaire comprising of …