Although one of the primary objectives of microfinance has been the reduction of poverty through the provision of … microfinance, there may be an indirect positive impact through the effect of microcredit availability on families' decisions to … availability on education expenditures for children of clients of a South Indian microfinance institution. I first look at some …

banks to small informal initiatives such as savings groups, and includes microfinance as well as collaborative finance …

Most of the customers of microfinance institutions are female. But do men and women benefit from the same credit … comprising 34,000 loan applications from a Brazilian microfinance institution. The model determines the optimal loan size fixed …

Altruistic peer-to-peer lending, or crowd-sourced Internet microfinance, exposes a unique environment in which to … minimal, or in the case of Kiva.org, zero financial return. While significant microfinance research has chronicled the … lending, observing crowd-sourced microfinance and what online organizational structures facilitate cooperation. At the end of …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been successful in providing credit to millions of low-income borrowers in groups … examine microfinance interest rates and their determinants in order to understand how these rates might be lowered. Using high …

microfinance organization operating in Pakistan since 2001. Borrowers are encouraged to give any amount they wish to the …