Ghana to engage in street head-load portaging, with the goal of examining the potential of microfinance to reverse this …. Also, the study revealed that migrant female porters have a strong desire to obtain capital from microfinance versus … policy makers of the importance of microfinance as a prospective remedial policy to address the phenomenon of north to south …

planning and managing microfinance and rural banking. We place this sociological issue in the context of the political economy … one example of excess borrowing is women’s use of microfinance to purchase a cow. Both individual level and social …

The study applied recent advances in propensity score matching methods to assess the impact of microfinance on … participating in microfinance programmes on household income and savings suggest that microfinance programmes may improve household … sufficient to become highly productive in income-generating activities. The finding of participation in microfinance programmes …

This article attempts to lay out the broad discursive space connecting the triad of microfinance, poverty and … in development, it critiques microfinance for a false promise of liberation which is predicated upon a reductionist … approach to both poverty and patriarchy. The article argues that microfinance can at best become a coping strategy for poor …

Bangladesh, a study was conducted, which finds that participation in microfinance programmes reduces fluctuations in daily income … membership in microfinance programmes increases. The study further suggests that it is the relatively poorer households that … benefit more from microfinance. …

Microfinance intervention is considered an important component of development strategy to mainstream the poor rural … households with the formal financial system in India. However, there is some evidence for the reverse, that microfinance may, in … and the type of microfinance model through a case study in Varanasi, U.P. Comparing two microfinance models prevalent in …

enforcement is imperfect. Motivated by the microfinance industry’s move towards markets, we conduct an equilibrium analysis of …

Groups and microfinance facilities are intended to produce a variety of economic, social and political outcomes … groups and microfinance schemes is strong, this article highlights the need to understand the context and existing … relationships within which community groups and microfinance services are situated, in order to identify important characteristics …