Numerous microfinance initiatives around the world aim to alleviate poverty in developing countries. However, debate persists about their effectiveness and sustainability – a concern for transnational corporations and the international business community, which contribute about $9.4 billion to...

This study extends research on the social performance of microfinance institutions. The research methodology is based on Grameen Progress out of Poverty Index™ (PPI™) for Cambodia applied to a sample of borrowers randomly extracted from a Cambodian microfinance institution's loan portfolio....

We examine the impact of transaction failures on the working of a biometric-enabled payment system introduced in India to facilitate banking by the poor. On average, nearly one-third of transactions fail. However, the proportion of failures decline steeply with user experience. The usage of the...

The main purpose of this paper is to compare the client satisfaction of faith-based and mainstream microfinance institutions. The level of satisfaction is considered on eight independent factors identified through literature survey and experts' opinion. The data-set comprised of a total of 300...

This paper explores four different rationales for incorporating a concern for the natural environment into the practice of microfinance. A binomial descriptive content analysis investigates the incidence of this so-called ‘green microfinance' in a sample of forty microfinance institutions...

This study examines whether microfinance is an effective poverty reduction intervention tool and the link between access to microfinance and poverty reduction in northern Ethiopia. The study tests the hypothesis that accesses to/ or participation in microfinance eradicates poverty reduction and...

The progress of Mobile Banking (M-banking) is unsatisfactory in terms of achieving a key objective, i.e. to reach the inaccessible unbanked customers at an affordable cost for financial inclusion. We identify the causes to this problem through the investigating the factors affecting the adoption...