. While microfinance is supposed to address this problem through the promotion of viable businesses, it has not been very … microfinance institutions (MFIs), there have been very few that look at market conditions as an input into the success of micro …

This study extends research on the social performance of microfinance institutions. The research methodology is based … Cambodian microfinance institution's loan portfolio. Dataset has been directly collected through in-house interviews. Main … at sustainable results. Here comes a call for a triple bottom line performance evaluation on microfinance institutions …

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 …

This study examines the exposure of microfinance institutions to liquidity, interest rate and foreign exchange (FX … the largest microfinance institutions worldwide. The data suggests that microfinance institutions in the sample, on …

This paper investigates whether the country-level financial environment in which microfinance institutions (MFIs) have …

the turn from ‘microfinance for the poor' to ‘digital finance for the poor'. It then considers three key issues and …

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 …

The main purpose of this paper is to compare the client satisfaction of faith-based and mainstream microfinance …' opinion. The data-set comprised of a total of 300 microfinance clients - 150 from faith-based microfinance institutions and … 150 from the mainstream microfinance institutions. The data was collected through a structured questionnaire comprising of …

This study examines the exposure of microfinance institutions to liquidity-, interest rate and foreign exchange (FX …) risk. Using manually collected data from microfinance institutions' financial reporting, I find that the microfinance …