the turn from ‘microfinance for the poor' to ‘digital finance for the poor'. It then considers three key issues and …

Micro-financing has been instrumental in alleviating poverty in rural and urban India as in different parts of the … empirical studies to decode the impact of micro-financing on poverty alleviation especially in Indian context. The paper …

Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) provide financial services to the poor and resemble banks and non-profits. Many target … results. In microfinance, gender diversity on the board of MFIs is beneficial, and loans by female loan officers have lower …

We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to …

Is it possible for microfinance institutions to simultaneously pursue profits and poverty reduction? This study … explores this question by analyzing the impact of Khushhali Bank, the largest retail microfinance bank in Pakistan. Khushhali … the bank also had an impact on economic or social measures of poverty, including empowerment of poor women, or income …

by three indicators related to microfinance institutions (MFIs) and then examine its effect on poverty reduction at the …This article is distinct in its application of the logit transformation to the poverty ratio for the purpose of … statistically significant and robust effect on decreasing the poverty ratio. …

. Despite widespread interest in microfinance, spillover effects on the very poor of expanding formal financial services remain … they impact direct participants and beneficiaries. In developing regions, households vulnerable to extreme poverty often …

accumulating on the impact of microfinance activities on poverty reduction. In particular we ask what is the evidence on three … poverty on a permanent basis; (2) the extent to which microfinance programs reach only the better-off amongst the poor … organizations and countries and in turn a vast number studies have attempted to assess the outreach and poverty impact of such …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are often seen by aid practitioners as a manifestly effective means of improving the … have been carried out more “rigorously”, but in both regions the evidence that microfinance is reaching the core poor is …