Lending to rural borrowers is a key element of pursuing the poverty alleviation mission of microfinance. However, a … strong focus on rural areas is said to hamper the sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs). We analyze this … potential trade-off based on data covering 802 microfinance institutions over the period 2008-2013. We find that increasing the …

This research aims to examine the mediating role of microfinance governance in the relationship between financial … literacy and microfinance sustainability. The research used the purposive sampling method to collect data from the Women … literacy plays an important role in the transformation of rural microfinance institutions (MFIs). Financial literacy works …