existing banks. A microfinance institution getting a banking license is an opportunity to work for the poor and improve …

The main purpose of this paper is to compare the client satisfaction of faith-based and mainstream microfinance …' opinion. The data-set comprised of a total of 300 microfinance clients - 150 from faith-based microfinance institutions and … 150 from the mainstream microfinance institutions. The data was collected through a structured questionnaire comprising of …

We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to …

Objective - The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of interest-free microfinance arrangements on the … livelihood of women in India. Studies reveal that the existence of interest-free microfinance, as well as its outcome on the … cross-section analysis is used to understand the satisfaction level among non-conventional microfinance arrangements. Survey …

This paper examines whether recently introduced village fundsʺ, one of the largest microfinance programs ever … ; microfinance ; credit constraint ; Thailand ; Asia …

This paper scrutinizes the impact of urban microfinance on livelihood strategies of borrower slum dwellers of Dhaka … keyfinding is that urban microfinance has a statistically significant positive impact on some income or expenditure variables … expenditure variables. Theprobability of changing occupations of the microfinance borrowers is statistically significantly higher …

This study was conducted to examine the role of Islamic microfinance on poverty alleviation. The four indicators of … sample of 150 borrowers from 20 Islamic microfinance institutions in Central Java, Indonesia. The questionnaires were … responses. The empirical tests indicated that microfinance has a significant role on improving income level, children …