the formation of microfinance institutions in Ireland. The focus of this study is the expansion of a hybrid organisational … understand Irish microfinance in the early nineteenth century, a period of profound socio-economic and socio-religious change. It … seeks to explain the factors that motivated the establishment and de-establishment of microfinance institutions amidst this …

microfinance models of lending offer considerably lower costs of borrowing than those in regular models of direct lending by banks …. The study opines that microfinance model of lending can provide cost-efficient model of financial intermediation for …

though they relax financing constraints. We relate this insight to the limited success of group-based microfinance in … loans ; social ties ; altruism ; peer-to-peer lending ; small business ; entrepreneurial finance ; microfinance ; missing …

of microfinance. A binomial descriptive content analysis investigates the incidence of this so-called ‘green microfinance …' in a sample of forty microfinance institutions (MFIs) whose lending criteria were publicly available. We conclude that … although there might be several rationales to support the proliferation of green microfinance very few MFIs are embedding such …

. While we consider the study of Gandhi's life and thought to be of great pedagogical value for microfinance practitioners, we … them for his own purposes while discarding those parts he found to be suspect, so too the contemporary microfinance sector …

This paper explores the typical risks that microfinance institutions (MFIs) face in their operations and outlines some …

In this paper, we investigate the role of output market imperfections in constraining the microfinance program to … results have important implications for development economics in general and impact assessment of microfinance program in …