For many years, microfinance has been the poster child of governments, policymakers, and international organizations … with the goal of lifting millions of people out of poverty. The notion that microfinance can pursue and achieve the … seemed to be consensus among microfinance practitioners, analysts, and other industry experts that this crisis will be …

evaluates the role of a country’s political practices in moderating the impact of global financial crunch on microfinance … to 2012, we determine that microfinance operational capability shares a positive relationship with the institutional …

The aim of this paper is to clarify the problems of microfinance and the sustainability of microfinance institutions …, the operations of MFIs are often not sufficiently efficient. The microfinance sector is in general known for its …

This paper presents an in-depth analysis of developments in the microfinance sector before and after the Lehman … developing countries. The findings indicate that microfinance has been part of the same credit boom observed in the traditional … capital. This raises the question whether the crisis resilience the microfinance sector has shown in the past remains a …