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 … between MFIs, an Irish solution, and the poor law, a British solution, to Ireland's chronic poverty. The goal of the Irish …

We examine the relations between the financial and outreach efficiency of Cambodian microfinance institutions (MFIs …

Microfinance has passed a long way from micro-saving to micro-credit and this journey has created an unforgettable … history of developing not only the rural people but also the urban poor too especially women. Though the concept “Microfinance …. Therefore in order to overcome the challenging issues like poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, lack of formal credit support …

This paper investigates whether financial development is conducive in poverty reduction. Separating financial … physical access is beneficial in reducing the proportion of people below the poverty line. Using alternative measures of … financial instability, the results also challenge existing findings that it may increase the incidence of poverty. In addition …

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of several governance mechanisms on microfinance institutions' (MFI) performance …

around an aggressive foray into provision of Microfinance is more likely to fail, than to succeed. The Microfinance strategy … any supply-side or income multiplier effect from Microfinance, and there is not arrival at any beneficial transformation …, which does not reside in purview of Microfinance, there is not arrival at any meaningful economic development. The study …

Microfinance has played a key role in including the poor in financial markets. This paper uses microfinance data to … development of microfinance markets. Our approach accounts for the dynamic and heterogeneous impacts that key drivers may have … causal relationships. Our key findings indicate that: i) Microfinance markets are more responsive to the needs of the bottom …

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 …

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 …