Women are universally considered good microfinance clients. The reason behind this is a popular belief in the … microfinance industry that women are better credit risks than men. Female targeting has been suggested to generate higher repayment … mixed results. Moreover, high repayment rates do not always warrant profitability for microfinance institutions (MFIs). An …

In this paper, we would like to know whether microfinance has effects on poverty reduction, and if the degree of these … causality, the effects of microfinance are relatively and significantly higher for women compared to men beneficiaries …

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to disadvantaged people and the financially excluded, often with a … social mission of poverty alleviation and women empowerment. There are many different forms of microfinance institutions …

also the real economy, creating widespread social unrest. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries seem …