success of microfinance around the world, a large number of commercial banks have made a profitable business out of this … sector. This paper explores various business models by commercial banks in microfinance and provides policy implications for …

governing the microfinance sector and client protection is also crucial for improving financial inclusion in Sri Lanka. Much …

This paper considers the possibility of mission drift in microfinance; a situation where Microfinance Institutions … examines whether microfinance institutions in Uganda follow a developmental objective by expanding their access to poorer …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been successful in providing credit to millions of low-income borrowers in groups … examine microfinance interest rates and their determinants in order to understand how these rates might be lowered. Using high …

though they relax financing constraints. We relate this insight to the limited success of group-based microfinance in … loans ; social ties ; altruism ; peer-to-peer lending ; small business ; entrepreneurial finance ; microfinance ; missing …

the formation of microfinance institutions in Ireland. The focus of this study is the expansion of a hybrid organisational … understand Irish microfinance in the early nineteenth century, a period of profound socio-economic and socio-religious change. It … seeks to explain the factors that motivated the establishment and de-establishment of microfinance institutions amidst this …

services has increased. Both banks and microfinance institutions have contributed to higher intensity. A recent study shows …