The purpose of the article is to investigate whether female presence in microfinance institutions' management team, i … officers improve financial performance in microfinance, while a higher proportion of female board members does not. Our results … indicate that a major contributor to the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions is having a higher rate of women …

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to disadvantaged people and the financially excluded, often with a … social mission of poverty alleviation and women empowerment. There are many different forms of microfinance institutions …

Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … the most significant factors in empowering women. -- microfinance ; impact ; women empowerment …

Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) provide financial services to the poor and resemble banks and non-profits. Many target … results. In microfinance, gender diversity on the board of MFIs is beneficial, and loans by female loan officers have lower …

equality are the distinctive goals among SDGs of UN. Considering the empirically tested impact of microfinance on women … empowerment in different regions of the world, this paper assesses the impact of microfinance on empowerment and poverty … Multidimensional poverty levels of the respondents. Results showed that exposure to microfinance has a positive impact on women …

The preference of microfinance institutions for women borrowers is generally attributed to two reasons: women borrowers …