, bank regulators, rural financial institutions and microfinance institutions that are committed to provide inclusive …Using data from a quick survey of various rural (RFIs) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in East Asia, the paper … and the continuing access of clients to financial services. The microfinance sector in Asia continues to evolve with …

Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus upon the problem of regulation in the field of micro-finance. This … operating in micro-finance, since this could have systemic implications. The third is a developmental role, emphasising scale …-up of the micro-finance industry where the key issues are diversification of access to funds, innovations in distribution …

In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance … loans in the affected state. We use this massive dislocation in the microfinance market to identify the causal impacts of a … sector (agriculture), suggesting that one important impact of the microfinance contraction was transmitted through its effect …

? Econometric analyses using the Indian microfinance crisis of 2010 as a natural quasi-experiment, supplemented by text analysis of …

This paper uses India's microfinance crisis as a context for evaluating alternative theories of microfinance. By … contrasting Bangladesh's highly successful Grameen model with the allegedly “universalizable” version of India's SKS Microfinance … theory, but more broadly construed – as the essential element accounting for the early success of microfinance. We show that …

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

Performance -- Chapter 13: Role of Microfinance Institutions in Social Inclusion – A Study with Reference to India -- Chapter 14 …: Role of Microfinance in reduction of Poverty in India -- Chapter 15: Predicting the Likelihood of Loan Default Among …Chapter 1: Global Recession and Microfinance Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 2: Are microfinance …