In this paper, we would like to know whether microfinance has effects on poverty reduction, and if the degree of these … causality, the effects of microfinance are relatively and significantly higher for women compared to men beneficiaries …

Microfinance has played a key role in including the poor in financial markets. This paper uses microfinance data to … development of microfinance markets. Our approach accounts for the dynamic and heterogeneous impacts that key drivers may have … causal relationships. Our key findings indicate that: i) Microfinance markets are more responsive to the needs of the bottom …

“Market penetration” is often used as a criterion for microfinance funders, particularly investors, in microfinance … investing in microfinance was advisable, often without sufficient differentiation between countries. Precise measures are … potential for expansion. This paper proposes a new set of indicators to measure market penetration in microfinance markets. It …

Madagascar is a country in Sub-Saharan Africa. With an area of 592,800 square kilometres, it is the world's 46th … poorest countries in Africa and the world: more than 60% of the population live on less than $2 a day. Many factors could be …

An attempt has been made to quantify the targeting of the microfinance and its economic impact on the borrowers. The … study has employed the Difference of the Difference Approach to find the net effect of microfinance by employing data … percent, which indicates that poor primarily borrow for smoothing their consumption. A significant net effect of microfinance …

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 …