This paper presents an in-depth analysis of developments in the microfinance sector before and after the Lehman … developing countries. The findings indicate that microfinance has been part of the same credit boom observed in the traditional … capital. This raises the question whether the crisis resilience the microfinance sector has shown in the past remains a …

models of microfinance lending in general and the co-operative model of microfinance lending in specific.The paper commences … with a description of the two main types of lending methods in microfinance - the group lending and the individual lending …. It describes the different lending models in the field of microfinance. Can the cooperative model of microfinance lending …

Using data from 1299 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 84 countries and following different approaches, it was found …

Is the microfinance institution (MFI) able to charge unduly high lending rates and obtain a profitability incompatible … versions is employed, together with analyses of price (the lending rate) and return on assets. We control for microfinance …

Altruistic peer-to-peer lending, or crowd-sourced Internet microfinance, exposes a unique environment in which to … minimal, or in the case of Kiva.org, zero financial return. While significant microfinance research has chronicled the … lending, observing crowd-sourced microfinance and what online organizational structures facilitate cooperation. At the end of …