excluded. These may include savings, insurances, remittances, and credit. Microfinance became the most dominant method for … achieving financial inclusion. However, different microfinance schools of thought recommend opposite ways for attaining … released data from the Global Findex database. Second, focusing on microfinance as the dominant vehicle for achieving financial …

This paper investigates how competition affects the double-bottom-line performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs … argue that this is unlikely to apply to institutions operating in socially oriented industries, such as microfinance. Using …

microfinance in Pakistan. In this study we designed to test the remarkable repayment performance of Akhuwat; most successful … Islamic Microfinance Institution (IMFI) in Pakistan. Akhuwat offers interest free loans in order to improve the quality of … determinants of microfinance repayment performance. The study examined the borrowers' characteristics, loan attributes, lender …

analyses the impact of these interest rate caps on microfinance institutions. Introducing the taxonomy of soft, mezzo and hard … instrument to distinguish between the different service levels and industry environments in which microfinance institutions … of the informal credit sector, and furthering the microfinance institution's mission drift. In Pt. V. we also show that …

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 …

The paper delves to estimate microfinance demand, supply and its mismatch in India in general and Assam in particular … some complementary reports on microfinance. The study shows that microfinance demand has shown a trend of increasing growth … for India as well as Assam and stands its candidature as a potential matured market in future. The supply of microfinance …