less infected districts. Using annual reports of the Irish Loan Funds, I further find that access to microfinance credit … strongly correlated with non-demographic adjustment to blight. Districts with at least one active microfinance fund during the …

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 …

alleviate poverty before the twentieth century by unravelling the financial rationale behind the various combinations of private … microfinance institutions, yet none of them were in a position to help the poor. We find that in the Netherlands the boundary of …

In the decade before the famine, Ireland experienced a boom in Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). This paper analyses … the poor law in 1838. Many contemporary writers saw microfinance as a complex tax avoidance/reduction scheme that could …