This paper surveys recent research on micro-finance and suggests directions for future research. New empirical evidence …

This paper surveys recent research on microfinance and suggests directions for future research. New empirical evidence …

vicious circle.Microfinance is a successful financial innovation to help the poor to sort out credit exclusion, which is one … unfair globalization.Microfinance, a grass-roots movement to provide credit to the neediest, can greatly help to dismantle at … the poorest for financial services is potentially unlimited – while supply is not.The key idea is that if microfinance is …

We examine the relations between the financial and outreach efficiency of Cambodian microfinance institutions (MFIs …

The paper analyzes the equilibrium in an economy where commercial banks/microfinance institutions can choose to provide …

of microfinance. A binomial descriptive content analysis investigates the incidence of this so-called ‘green microfinance …' in a sample of forty microfinance institutions (MFIs) whose lending criteria were publicly available. We conclude that … although there might be several rationales to support the proliferation of green microfinance very few MFIs are embedding such …