Only relief achieves short-term poverty reduction, but is ineffective in the long run. Sustainable poverty reduction can only be attained through well-designed long-term development measures. For example, Indonesia is considered one of the most successful countries with regard to poverty...

This research aims to examine the mediating role of microfinance governance in the relationship between financial literacy and microfinance sustainability. The research used the purposive sampling method to collect data from the Women Farmers Group (WFG) "Tapa Walla Badi" in Mbatakapidu village,...

Rural indebtedness and dependence on private moneylenders is an age-old problem in India. For more than 100 years now, the Central Government and the Reserve Bank of India have been making efforts to enhance institutional credit in rural areas particularly to assist in agricultural operations....