Purpose The purpose of this paper is to document the impact of participation in microfinance programs on domestic … violence against women. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses the survey data from 69 villages in Bangladesh and the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of microcredit on women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh … four districts of Bangladesh. Logistic regression is used to estimate the odd of improving women empowerment after … participating in microfinance. Findings The results show positive impacts of microfinance on most of the selected indicators for …

Purpose – The extent to which microfinance succeeds varies greatly even among countries. The paper aims to look at why … microfinance develops in some countries rather than others. It aims to identify institutional factors that can be introduced to … enable microfinance to succeed in a country. Design/methodology/approach – A small‐sample comparative approach is used …

Purpose Despite remarkable economic growth in the last two decades, corruption is a “way of life” in Bangladesh. The … purpose of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between economic development and corruption in Bangladesh … examine the long run relationship or cointegration between corruption and per capita real GDP in Bangladesh using annual time …

Bangladesh. The results indicate that application of Jones' natural inventory model is feasible in the context of developing … countries such as Bangladesh. It is also recognised that the socio‐economic and political environment prevailing in developing …

Abstract Using borrower-level data from FINCA, one of Peru's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs), this paper …

With increasing emphasis being placed on professionalism and a self-sustaining financial model, microfinance … microfinance associations are not focused solely on representing and advocating for the interests of their members. Rather, this …