?owned businesses are small, household?based cottage industries; microfinance products should be a natural source of start?up and … working capital finance for this clientele. Microfinance portfolio data suggest that although Pakistan's sector has shown … improvement in reaching women, it still lags its regional peers, only 59 percent of microfinance clients are women. The original …

</titre> An increasing number of works on microfinance mention the social responsibility of private, public or mixed … organizations which deliver microfinance services. Their social responsibility has to be understood as a supply of financial … organization and program for their customers and their users, but also for the others actors of the microfinance sector they enter …

</titre> Over the last five years, growing scepticism regarding the role of microfinance and the desire to underscore … efforts to create socially responsible finance have led microfinance actors to develop new approaches to measure and … strengthen the social performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs). What is behind these recent developments ? What is their …

explores the effects of microfinance on pre-existing indebtedness and over-indebtedness. The analysis demonstrates the … complexity of causality chains and the diversity of microfinance effects and households trajectories. In a context where … to borrow, rigidity of repayments) as well as social reasons. For other clients, microfinance has a leverage effect : it …

</titre> This article aims to study the interactions that are taking place between microfinance and households … only at the household level but, more globally, at the level of the social network. Thus microfinance borrowers continue to …