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 … performance. Using the fixed effect panel regression method on the dataset comprising of 95 MFIs operating in South Asia from 2003 … 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 …