Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are often seen by aid practitioners as a manifestly effective means of improving the … position of the poor. Despite this widely held view, detailed research studies have been much more guarded about the impact of … paper surveys the evidence from Asia and Latin America and contrasts experiences in the two regions. Studies on the former …

Is it possible for microfinance institutions to simultaneously pursue profits and poverty reduction? This study … explores this question by analyzing the impact of Khushhali Bank, the largest retail microfinance bank in Pakistan. Khushhali … the bank also had an impact on economic or social measures of poverty, including empowerment of poor women, or income …

-covering levels without losing customers. This claim is at the core of sustainable microfinance strategies that aim to provide banking …

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of some of the microfinance lending methodologies using the approach comparing …

reinforcement of the microfinance mechanism to propagate a soothing trend for poverty reduction and economic growth. … economic development in Nigeria. Based on empirical study, it has been observed that poverty is multifaceted and its … which could improve their lives. For this study, our theoretical a priori expectation is that provision of microfinance …

results have important implications for development economics in general and impact assessment of microfinance program in …In this paper, we investigate the role of output market imperfections in constraining the microfinance program to … increases with adoption of modern irrigation method and soil quality. NGOs do not consider poverty incidence in the village. The …

In recent years, an important number of impact studies have attempted to examine the effect of credit on income poverty … in order to measure the sensitivity of the poverty impact to the intra-household distribution of welfare. We find a link … is inappropriate in the urban context where a large percentage of microfinance organisations in the developing world …

external funding and consequently the importance of these debt sources for microfinance performance. Our findings reveal that … certain conditions by the development of banking sector, as well. Likewise, their presence can have a positive impact on the …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) finance their business activities primary with clients’ deposits, equity or with … the range of external funding and consequently the importance of these external debt sources for microfinance performance … positive impact on the number of clients, portfolio quality, margin or cost policy of MFIs. The opposite effect can appear if …