Microfinance: Interventions in Challenging Contexts

Introduction -- An introduction to Microfinance book -- Financial system and Institutionalist approach -- Analysing the financial performance of microfinance mutual funds -- The economic efficiency of microfinance institutions: evolution along time and explicative factors -- Assessing Performance Profiles of Microfinance Institutions: New Insights into the Management of the Double Bottom-Line -- Factors influencing loan delinquency in microfinance institutions: a literature review -- Income smoothing in microfinance institutions: The effect of gender on the board of directors and the impact of the financial crisis -- The Influence of Women in the Board on the Efficiency of Brazilian Credit Unions -- Informal microfinance in developing contexts and the case of Xitique in Mozambique: a literature review -- Poverty lending and welfarism approach -- The impact of Microfinance on Individuals' Empowerment: A Systematic Literature Review -- Microfinance effects on entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation: A bibliometric analysis -- Microfinance Interventions in the COVID-19 Challenging Context: A Systematic Review -- Long-term effect of microfinance services on women's economic empowerment in Yemen -- Natural Disaster, Livelihood Challenges and Microfinance: A Field Survey Analysis of Sundarbans Region in West Bengal, India -- Generalists studies -- Discouragement and Micro Credit Rationing: Are Microfinance Institutions a Panacea? -- The role of entrepreneurial motivation and repayment performance on microcredit terms -- Measuring microcredit delinquency among Uruguayan entrepreneurs: A study of a non-profit microfinance institution -- Dynamics from lending-based prosocial crowdfunding in Eastern Europe: Personal versus business on funding performance -- Nudging as a tool to improve decisions in finance and accounting solutions.