The Banque de France organised a symposium on microfinance in July 2011. Based on the experience of Southern countries …, the participants stressed the usefulness of microfinance as an instrument for financial inclusion, economic development …

, social, psychological and political disempowerment. This led to the emergence of the microfinance model for the rural poor … systemic literature review to examine microfinance-led women empowerment to reduce the ambiguity in theoretical and empirical … underpinning. Findings The study’s findings suggest that even though microfinance as a developmental model is not a runaway success …

micro equity finance, Islamic microfinance institutions (IMFIs) can reach the right targets and effectively mitigate the … model that can use Islamic equity-based modes of financing to improve microfinance outreach and achieve scale. The use of … agency problems in Islamic microfinance and proposes a solution through distinct entry criterion and enterprise level micro …