Microfinance has passed a long way from micro-saving to micro-credit and this journey has created an unforgettable … history of developing not only the rural people but also the urban poor too especially women. Though the concept “Microfinance …

This paper analyzes a database of over 18,000 women micro-finance clients of the Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation …

This study examines whether microfinance is an effective poverty reduction intervention tool and the link between … access to microfinance and poverty reduction in northern Ethiopia. The study tests the hypothesis that accesses to/ or … participation in microfinance eradicates poverty reduction and /or improving the living standards of the poorest population are …

modernizing our religious understanding to accelerate poverty reduction in the Muslim world …

This study examines whether microfinance is an effective poverty-reduction intervention tool and the link between … access to microfinance and poverty reduction in northern Ethiopia. The study tests the hypothesis that access to/ or … participation in microfinance eradicates poverty reduction and /or improving the living standards of the poorest population are …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the three different forms of institutional transformation in microfinance … drift' in microfinance, away from providing affordable financial funds to the poorest towards a more profit …-oriented business model. With the help of empirical findings in the existing literature on microfinance in Sub-Saharan Africa the main …

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 …

metrics, `impacts' of Microfinance programs around the world are more directly comparable … around an aggressive foray into provision of Microfinance is more likely to fail, than to succeed. The Microfinance strategy … any supply-side or income multiplier effect from Microfinance, and there is not arrival at any beneficial transformation …