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 …

This paper studies the relationship between a microfinance institution (MFI) and its credit officers when the latter …

The purpose of this paper is to explore the state of existing research on microfinance lending discrimination against … accessing microfinance (Labie et al., 2015). The attitudes of employees within microfinance institutions (MFIs) are one of the … Nuwagaba et al. (2012) found that people with disabilities tend not to apply for microfinance due to the anticipation of such …

secure their financial lives. Althoughmicrofinance has been widely used in Bangladesh formore than three decades as a tool … 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 …

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

This study investigates the use of microfinance services among economically active disabled people in Uganda. The … findings suggest that disabled people make more use of microfinance services than previously assumed. A total of 89 per cent of … the survey's respondents state that they have used at least one type of microfinance service. Informal self-help schemes …

This paper studies the relationship between a microfinance institution (MFI) and its loan officers when officers …