This article provides a brief but comprehensive overview of microfinance academic literature with emphasis on recent … innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as commercialization … reviewed literature underline the great improvement in the microfinance field that, however, has not reached its full potential …

This paper provides a brief but comprehensive overview of microfinance academic literature with emphasis on recent … innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as commercialization … reviewed literature underline the great improvement in the microfinance field that, however, has not reached its full potential …

We investigate the puzzle of microfinance: that loans generate large measured returns for businesses, yet loan take …-up is low and the businesses often close. We analyze a randomized trial that bundled microfinance loans with a cheap health … business losses, rather than pay modest insurance premiums, implies the substantial financial gains from microfinance loans are …

Despite the professed claims of microcredit alleviating poverty, little is known about what kind of credit contract is … belief, we also found that the microcredit demand by the ultra-poor is not necessarily small, and in particular the ultra …-poor are significantly more likely to join a microcredit program than the moderately poor if a grace period with longer …

This survey article provides a brief but comprehensive overview of microfinance academic literature with emphasis on … recent innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as … of the reviewed literature underline the great improvement in the microfinance field that, however, has not reached its …

; microfinance ; female empowerment ; household decision making ; commitment …

development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering …-oriented durables goods purchased in the household. -- Savings ; microfinance ; female empowerment ; household decision making …

Microfinance programs like Self Help Group Bank linkage program (SHG), aim to empower women through provision of … the most significant factors in empowering women. -- microfinance ; impact ; women empowerment …

microcredit duration on the welfare of clients of a microcredit organization in western India. We survey respondents from three … cities, Mumbai, Pune, and Satara, to understand the impact of microcredit on both pecuniary and non-pecuniary dimensions of … impact overall of the length of time microcredit is received on income generation, and indirectly on saving, in the complete …