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Alternative strategies of for-profit, not-for-profit and state-owned Nepalese microfinance institutions for poverty alleviation and women empowerment
Dhungana, Bharat Ram; Chapagain, Ramkrishna; Ashta, Arvind - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-24
Microfinance is the provision of financial services to disadvantaged people and the financially excluded, often with a … social mission of poverty alleviation and women empowerment. There are many different forms of microfinance institutions …
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Microcredit in Developed Countries : Unexpected Consequences of Loan-Size Ceilings
Cozarenco, Anastasia - 2013
In most developed countries, regulators have imposed loan-size ceilings to subsidized microfinance institutions (MFIs …
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An Empirical Study of Self-Helps Groups and Awareness of Group Members
Lokhande, M. A. - 2016
Self-help groups, as it evident from research studies, are instrumental in creating awareness and socio-economic development of group members and their families. The groups are formed and run on democratic principles. Generally, homogeneous groups of the same socio-economic background are...
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Board gender diversity and debt utilization : evidence from the global microfinance industry
Sharma, Arpita; Chauhan, Swati; Md Aslam Mia; Sangwan, Sunil - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 24 (2024) 3, pp. 530-548
To support the continued expansion of their operations, microfinance institutions (MFIs) worldwide rely heavily on debt …
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What impact does microfinance have on rural livelihood? : a comparison of governmental and non-governmental microfinance programs in Bangladesh
Mazumder, Mohummed Shofi Ullah; Lu, Wencong - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 68 (2015), pp. 336-354
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A qualitative approach to determine the problems and challenges faced by microfinance institution with reference to poverty alleviation: a case of district
Nagar, Bahawal; Iqbal, Zahid; Hussain, Rai Imtiaz; Ali, … - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 10 (2020) 4, pp. 192-197
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Investigating the Effect of the Utilization of Microcredit on Hardcore Poor Clients Household Income and Assets
Al Mamun, Abdullah - 2014
The objective of this study is to examine how Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (AIM)'s clients have been using the microcredit received and the effect of microcredit utilization on household income and asset. To obtain the above mentioned objectives, this study employed a cross sectional stratified...
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Impact of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia’s Microcredit Schemes on Microenterprise Assets in Malaysia
Al Mamun, Abdullah - 2014
This study employs a cross sectional design with stratified random sampling method to examine the effect of Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia's (AIM) microcredit program on hardcore poor households' microenterprise assets in Peninsular Malaysia. So far no known study has been conducted to measure the...
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Microcredit Institutions and the Battle Against Poverty : The Pan-Arab Enda Initiative in Tunisia
Trabelsi, Mohamed Ali - 2014
The aim of this paper is to show, jointly by means of theoretical and empirical studies and through the Pan-Arab Enda case installed in Tunisia, that the adoption of a policy of credit rationing makes it possible to cure the problems of information asymmetry and to ensure the performance of...
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Client Satisfaction in Faith-Based Microfinance : A Comparison with Mainstream Models of Microfinance
Hoda, Najmul - 2015
The main purpose of this paper is to compare the client satisfaction of faith-based and mainstream microfinance …' opinion. The data-set comprised of a total of 300 microfinance clients - 150 from faith-based microfinance institutions and … 150 from the mainstream microfinance institutions. The data was collected through a structured questionnaire comprising of …
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