We examine the heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by microfinance institutions (MFIs …

sustainable microfinance and create viable institutions. It provides a comprehensive source for the design, implementation …, evaluation, and management of microfinance activities. The book has three parts: part one takes a macroeconomic perspective … toward general microfinance issues and is primarily non-technical. Part two narrows its focus to the provision of financial …

, institutional, economic and geographic factors which explain why Microfinance in particular and development in general arrives … which can be introduced in regulation to enable Microfinance to succeed in a country. We used a case study approach combined … detail. The success of Microfinance is linked to population density, smallness of a country's geographical size and its …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) proved to be a powerful tool for financial inclusion through developing … on their financial performance, using the panel dataset of 57 microfinance institutions from the member countries of the …-for-profit MFIs can ensure their financial viability while serving the poorest clients which is the prime goal of any microfinance …

. These changes vary from one country to another. This study contributes to the literature on microfinance profitability by … Panel Data Models is applied to determine the extent to which institutions affect microfinance profitability. We test the … robustness of the models with different specifications that confirm the general result. Our estimation shows that microfinance …