Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …

vicious circle.Microfinance is a successful financial innovation to help the poor to sort out credit exclusion, which is one … unfair globalization.Microfinance, a grass-roots movement to provide credit to the neediest, can greatly help to dismantle at … the poorest for financial services is potentially unlimited – while supply is not.The key idea is that if microfinance is …

This paper analyzes gender-differences with respect to microfinance repayment-rates using a large global dataset … covering 350 Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in 70 countries. The results indicate that more women clients is associated with …

Altruistic peer-to-peer lending, or crowd-sourced Internet microfinance, exposes a unique environment in which to … minimal, or in the case of Kiva.org, zero financial return. While significant microfinance research has chronicled the … lending, observing crowd-sourced microfinance and what online organizational structures facilitate cooperation. At the end of …

Microfinance services have emerged as an effective tool for financing micro-entrepreneurs to alleviate poverty. Since … the 1970s, development theorists have considered non-governmental microfinance institutions (MFIs) as the leading … micro-finance services provided by MFIs on poverty alleviation. In this vein, we examine whether microfinance services …