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 …

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 …

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 …

We consider a model where poverty minimizing donors fund microfinance lenders that are heterogeneous in cost. Under … separation is good for aggregate poverty reduction or not depends on the quantity of supply of funds. When the supply is small …

We review the empirical evidence on microfinance and asset grants to the ultra poor or microentrepreneurs and use … lead to wide-scale, transformative impacts akin to escaping aggregate poverty traps …

In recent years, an important number of impact studies have attempted to examine the effect of credit on income poverty … is inappropriate in the urban context where a large percentage of microfinance organisations in the developing world … in order to measure the sensitivity of the poverty impact to the intra-household distribution of welfare. We find a link …

-allocation of labour resources with important implications for productivity, income, and poverty status. However, credit … accessibility could also have wider impacts on poverty if it leads to new hires outside the household. This paper contributes to the … those in poverty outside the household. We test whether, by lending to the vulnerable non-poor, microcredit programmes can …

microfinance model that can be considered to be more fruitful and productive to alleviate poverty effectively; it explains seven … importance to promote the social welfare projects in order to alleviate the poverty. The article 37 and 38 of constitution 1973 … plans for the provision of basic facilities to poor's. According to the State Bank report 2011, Microfinance has failed to …