Remuneration-post-verification subsidies and microcredit have been postulated as potential solutions to imperfect … combining these financing mechanisms. We draw on a cluster RCT in rural India of a sanitation labelled microcredit program …’ Mission. Linking our survey data to government, MFI and credit bureau administrative data, we make two contributions: first …

studied included credit and dividends accessed from table banking groups, entrepreneur's experience, education levels of women … entrepreneurs who participate in Village Saving and Credit Associations from Nakuru Town Kenya was used. The study found that all … threshold of 20%. This implied that the selected factors income, credit and education level of the respondents influenced …

The Indian Microfinance Institutes (MFI) Crisis has spawned several debates on the MFI movement. However, the clients … burdens, and it shows that the microfinance movement in India still has a long way to go in being truly “bottom-up” …

Microfinance is the provision of a broad range of financial services to poor and low-income households and their … microenterprises (Asian Development Bank). Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) have, hence, traditionally been funded by developmental … philanthropy, the microfinance sector is increasingly turning to profit-motivated private investors. Investor attention to …

Ceilings on lending rates remain a widely used policy tool that is intended to lower the overall cost of credit or …-effects. These side-effects include increases in non-interest fees and commissions, reduced price transparency, lower credit supply … alternatives to reduce the cost of credit …