We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to …

This study was conducted to examine the role of Islamic microfinance on poverty alleviation. The four indicators of … poverty alleviation were used: income levels, children’s education, health care, and business progress. This study used the … sample of 150 borrowers from 20 Islamic microfinance institutions in Central Java, Indonesia. The questionnaires were …

assist escaping fromthe poverty trap. Without knowledge transfer and without inter-community connection building - at least …

sufficient to assist escaping from the poverty trap. Without knowledge transfer and without inter-community connection building …

The food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) says that the alleviation of extreme poverty by 2030 … inconsistent and contradictory results and poverty remains a major concern in many countries including those which implemented the …

on people poverty in the contest of microcredit and microfinance interventions. The chosen methodology uses a poverty …The aim of the work is to develop new tools for targeting the poor, tracking changes in poverty over time and reporting … Kline, elaborated a scorecard method to rank clients of PRIZMA, a Bosnian MFI, by relative poverty and the likelihood that a …

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of several governance mechanisms on microfinance institutions' (MFI) performance …

around an aggressive foray into provision of Microfinance is more likely to fail, than to succeed. The Microfinance strategy … any supply-side or income multiplier effect from Microfinance, and there is not arrival at any beneficial transformation …, which does not reside in purview of Microfinance, there is not arrival at any meaningful economic development. The study …

Microfinance has played a key role in including the poor in financial markets. This paper uses microfinance data to … development of microfinance markets. Our approach accounts for the dynamic and heterogeneous impacts that key drivers may have … causal relationships. Our key findings indicate that: i) Microfinance markets are more responsive to the needs of the bottom …

Numerous microfinance initiatives around the world aim to alleviate poverty in developing countries. However, debate … community, which contribute about $9.4 billion to microfinance funding. In this policy-oriented article we aggregate findings … from two studies in Indonesia that help explain why moneylending can still thrive when low-interest microfinance is widely …