Microfinance plays a crucial role to reduce the poverty in developing countries. For that reason, the effectiveness of … microfinance institutions (MFIs) is widely investigated in the literature. This study examines the levels of efficiency of MFIs in … Vietnam and their determinants. The research, then, evaluates the relationship between MFIs’ efficiency and poverty reduction …

. It also explores the role of microfinance in supporting the utilization of the trade facilitation initiatives. The role … of microfinance in this context is to complement trade facilitation measures in order to allow the poor to benefit from … facilitation under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) programme of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Thailand has implemented …