agricultural production and changes in land use in the Mekong Delta Region of Viet Nam during the mid-1990s. The study relies on … econometric analysis of household-level longitudinal farm survey data covering about 150 farms from eight villages in the Mekong … use and level of production observed in the Mekong Delta during the 1990s. A simulation model is developed to highlight …

interest of western banks in new models of finance, particularly Islamic finance and microfinance. This new trend is not only … primarily outlines that many elements of microfinance could be considered consistent with the broader goals of Islamic banking …

This paper uses a panel data set of microfinance institutions (MFI) across the world to compare several identification …

This paper explores the potential of microfinance in post-conflict economies, and speci-fically examines policy … requirements for suc-cessful microfinance operations, as outlined by the Microenterprises Best Practices Project. Political …

self-employed poor rarely have any formal training in business skills. However, a growing number of microfinance … also improved repayment and client retention rates for the microfinance institutions. Larger effects found for those that …

This paper discusses the so-called commercial approach to microfinance under economic and ethical aspects. It first … shows how microfinance has developed from a purely welfare-oriented activity to a commercially relevant line of banking … microfinance in the course of the last decade. As the author argues, this commercial approach is the only sound approach to adopt …

present estimates of this parameter derived from a randomized trial. The experiment was implemented by a consumer microfinance …