drives and passions, including the spiritual, the social, and the altruistic. Welcome to the world of social business, where … homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet. Creating a World Without Poverty tells the stories of some of the …

microfinance institutions. This paper extends Arnone, Bellavite Pellegrini and Messa (2010), which recognized the importance of … strictly financial aspects of MFIs, nearing them to the world of traditional banks. We provide an empirical analysis of the …) analyses - using a sample of 750 microfinance institutions operating in Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Our study …

Microfinance promises to trim down poverty. To achieve this noble objective microfinance institutions (MFIs) have to …-significant negative effect on financial sustainability of MFIs. Third, we find that the client outreach of microfinance programs and the …

Many, although not all, of the problems observed in microfinance sectors recently were triggered by the latest … financial crisis, or were intensified by other elements, including saturated microfinance markets, deficient credit policies and … governance structures, and negative policy interventions. This report, Lessons for Microfinance Institutions from Financial …

The global financial crisis affected microfinance institutions (MFIs) as lending growth was constrained by scarcer …

The paper seeks to answer a key research question: How does one assess and predict microfinance performance at a … of stakeholders, including governments, regulators, microfinance institutions, donors, borrowers and researchers. This … answers:a. Which measurable indicators can be used to assess and predict microfinance performance?b. How can these indicators …

change. It is in this context that microfinance merits a closer look. This paper offers the first empirical assessment of the … linkages between microfinance supported activities and adaptation to climate change. Specifically, the lending portfolios of … the 22 leading microfinance institutions in two climate vulnerable countries - Bangladesh and Nepal - are analysed to …

This paper investigates whether the country-level financial environment in which microfinance institutions (MFIs) have …