The paper evaluates the extent to which Sinapi Aba Trust has contributed to poverty reduction among rural and urban poor especially women by supporting them with small loans to expand their businesses to generate income to build up their asset base. Using a cross-sectional data from 547...

A key objective of microfinance programmes is to provide financial services to poor people who are excluded from such services by the formal banking system. It is in this perspective that governments, development partners and donor agencies continue to provide support to such institutions, to...

1. Success factors of microcredit : what can we learn for international development? / Farhad Hossain, Christopher Rees and Tonya Knight Millar -- 2. A short history of the Grameen Bank : from subsidized microcredit to market-based microfinance / David Hulme -- 3. Microcredit as a...