competition between a bank and a microfinance institution (MFI), geographical distance and transportation costs alone are no …

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 …

The global microfinance movement is driven by the claim that once poor micro-entrepreneurs are provided access to … substantiate this claim. This paper reports on a field experiment conducted in Pakistan, in co-operation with Akhuwat microfinance … microfinance institutions in Pakistan. …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …

preference over borrowers in micro-finance lending. We distinguish between perceptions of transaction-related factors, such as …

This paper examines the combined effect of interest rates and poverty levels of microfinance clients on loan size … poverty level is suggested in targeting and sustaining microfinance clients. -- interest rate ; sensitivity ; loan ; poor … ; microfinance ; Ghana …