This paper investigates the impact of microfinance institutions on the informal sector of the Nigerian economy drawing … from a cross-sectional data of 14,189 customers from two major microfinance clusters – the Self-Reliance Economic … Advancement Programme (SEAP) and ASHA Microfinance Bank Limited with a combined membership of over 700,000 clients. The study …

that the microfinance model has made an important net contribution to the economic and social recovery of post-war Bosnia …, actually shows that the microfinance model has made a distinctly negative contribution to Bosnia's reconstruction and … development effort. We argue, centrally, that the microfinance model has assisted the Bosnian economy to move to an unsustainable …