Microfinance aims at providing basic financial services such as loans, savings and insurance to socially and … microfinance. Microcredit supplies financial means to start up businesses and to finance microenterprises. Microfinance originated … presents the relevance, efficiency and impact of microfinance policy and its policy instruments with respect to support for …

The idea of microfinance is well known now around the world. It can develop both in poor countries and in highly … developed ones. Microfinance aims to reach two basic goals: to stimulate the borrowers in order to trigger activities that would … integrate financially. The microfinance market in Europe differs from those in poorer countries as regards the level and range …

Chapter 1: Global Recession and Microfinance Institutions: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 2: Are microfinance … institutions unscathed from the recession? – An empirical reconsideration -- Chapter 3: Microfinance as a Strategy to Curb the … Global Recession -- Chapter 4: Developing Strategies to Improve Microfinance System in Turkey with Fuzzy Logic -- Chapter 5 …

Traditional banks have proved to have severe limits in mitigating financial exclusion. The microfinance revolution is … microfinance in alleviating social and financial exclusion …

-- The global political economy of microfinance and poverty reduction : locating local "livelihoods" in political analysis … -- Social capital, microfinance, and the politics of development / Katharine N. Rankin -- Rebuilding social capital in post … side to microfinance : evidence from Cajamarca, Peru / Katie Wright -- Banking on bananas, crediting crafts : financing …