both a cross-section and a balanced panel data approach. Using a sample of 750 microfinance institutions operating in Asia … services. The paper shows that the connections between microfinance and commercial banking activity are closer than usually …

microfinance institutions. This paper extends Arnone, Bellavite Pellegrini and Messa (2010), which recognized the importance of …) analyses - using a sample of 750 microfinance institutions operating in Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Our study …

Microfinance promises to trim down poverty. To achieve this noble objective microfinance institutions (MFIs) have to …-significant negative effect on financial sustainability of MFIs. Third, we find that the client outreach of microfinance programs and the …

We provide a new evidence on a potential best way for a microfinance institution (MFI) to alleviate poverty while …

clear demarcation of the regulatory framework of the microfinance institutions in India, overlapping of regulation is … prevalent. The government sectors as well as the stakeholders in the microfinance institutions have shown their eagerness to …

Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus upon the problem of regulation in the field of micro-finance. This … operating in micro-finance, since this could have systemic implications. The third is a developmental role, emphasising scale …-up of the micro-finance industry where the key issues are diversification of access to funds, innovations in distribution …

times, microfinance is being considered as a tool to propel the economic activities and raise the income level of the poor …, resulting in ultimate social benefits. With this backdrop, this paper attempts to analyse the relation between microfinance and …

Microfinance Institutions (hereafter MFIs). Within the period of 2005-2011 the researcher evaluated 11 MFIs exists in Sri Lanka …