The Microfinance industry has been severely affected by Covid-19. We provide detailed insights into how loan officers … pandemic. We use administrative records of an Indian Microfinance Institution and detailed panel survey data on performance …

. Perhaps no one would argue against the notion that microfinance can be a very useful apparatus in human, social, economic …, political and national development. Microfinance has been established to fill the gap of a missing credit market for the poor … elimination throughout the world. In this study, we investigate the impact of microfinance on poverty alleviation for the economy …

Purpose: the objective is to measure the financial and social performance of 127 microfinance institutions (MFIs) and …/methodology/approach: The time-series performance analysis of microfinance institutions is determined in two stages. In the first stage, both … explanatory variables. Faith-based and secular-based microfinance institutions are strongly significant if the performances …

The regulation of microfinance services is likely to have a wide-ranging influence on the microfinance sector … organizations (NGOs). We analyzed survey and interview data provided by clients of both nonprofit microfinance institutions (MFIs …

This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality … microfinance in reducing inequality at the macro level. Moreover, our results suggest that microfinance loans can lead to improve … recommendations to policymakers, as they could generate suitable strategies to consider microfinance institutions as a more popular …

Using panel data methodology, the study employs dataset of 752 microfinance banks (MFBs) during the period 2011 to 2014 …, to test for the existence of mission drift in Nigeria. The result suggests that sustainable microfinance banks tend to be … more focused on poor clients, which implies increased depth of outreach of microfinance banks in Nigeria. This result …

an efficient informal microfinance scheme and that it is compatible with Sharīʿah rules. Originality/value: The optimum …

microfinance for refugees. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative method is used in this research. An extensive review of the … literature has been conducted. Latest literature on refugees, microfinance has been critically examined beside the current cash … can be utilised to improve their socio-economic situations. The proposed model - cash waqf refugee microfinance fund …