We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability … be robust using sensitivity analysis and Rosenbaum bounds method. -- Microfinance ; Vulnerability ; Poverty ; Self Help …

The choice of Microfinance (MF) by the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) as the primary means of poverty alleviation … to take a fresh look and start from first principles to clear the air. Microfinance is micro finance---it is finance writ … small. If finance works, microfinance works. Much of the difficulty has been created by academics and arises from scholars …

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this …

population, with the aim of improving that impact. We analyze over 18,000 women micro-finance clients of the Negros Women for … change in poverty score. -- micro-finance ; Grameen ; poverty ; quantile regression …

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this …

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

on people poverty in the contest of microcredit and microfinance interventions. The chosen methodology uses a poverty … client is poor by an absolute standard. The poverty absolute standard was derived from the LSMS (World Bank, 2002), the State …

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 …

The evaluation of the poverty of beneficiaries is a topic rarely raised as is the impact of microfinance. The different … debate from survey data collected in Mali in 2007 regarding the beneficiaries of microfinance services. The paper adopts the …