Microfinance industry has grown massively in the past decades. Even if it is commonly considered as an important … development tool, the evidence of the socio-economic impact of microfinance is mixed, regardless of what methodology has been … applied. The purpose of this study is to assess the socio-economic impact of microfinance on the clients of a microfinance …

The study aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy set up to support the vulnerable through access to credit. We … entrepreneurs in the rationing behavior of the microfinance companies. This is what we should expect if the policy is effective. Our … results show that even after controlling for a large number of borrower characteristics, microfinance type and credit …

In this paper, we would like to know whether microfinance has effects on poverty reduction, and if the degree of these … causality, the effects of microfinance are relatively and significantly higher for women compared to men beneficiaries …

areas. Our results indicate a negative, though non-significant, impact of microfinance on male beneficiaries in urban areas …

Most of the customers of microfinance institutions are female. But do men and women benefit from the same credit … comprising 34,000 loan applications from a Brazilian microfinance institution. The model determines the optimal loan size fixed …