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Quantile Insights Into Sustainability: Financial Inclusion, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Damage in EAGLE Countries

Review of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 48-62, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how financial inclusion affects the ecological footprint of EAGLE nations (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey). In the process, novel panel data approaches are used to study the years between 2004 and 2022.
Sercan Aydin, Mehmet Akif Destek
wiley   +1 more source

Role of Microfinance in Entrepreneurial Development in Low-Income Areas

Studies in Business and Economics
This study examines microfinance’s role in developing entrepreneurship in low-income areas. Entrepreneurship is one of the better ways to eradicate the most critical problems, such as poverty, income inequality, and unemployment.
Ullah Saif, Ali Mirza Raza, Sidiki Shehla Najeeb   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microfinance: Champion in Poverty Alleviation and Failure in Female Empowerment [PDF]

In the past few years the provision of financial services to low-income clients via microfinance programs has drastically increased due to its positive effects on development.
Dobra, Alexandra
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Competition and Wide Outreach of Microfinance Institutions [PDF]

While the theoretical literature has found that intense competition leads to the poorest borrowers dropping out of the microfinance market, we do not possess sufficient research accumulated for empirical analysis in this field.
KAI, Hisako
core   +4 more sources

Impact of Microfinance on the Performance of an Agriculture Industry in Pakistan [PDF]

This study is an attempt to investigate the impact of microfinance on industry performance. The findings explain that there is no as such impact of microfinance on agriculture industry performance in a country like Pakistan.
Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz
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Lending to Agribusinesses in Zambia [PDF]

Microfinance has been celebrated in the last decade as a new paradigm shift in lending that has achieved immense success in improving the living standards of the poor through the provision of financial services.
Mukumbuta, Likando, Mwanamambo, Brian, Salin, Victoria   +2 more
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The scope for policy reforms in rural microfinance [PDF]

This brief considers the scope for policy action in seven areas: (1) regulation of microfinance institutions, (2) provision of saving services, (3) product innovation, (4) organizational issues in microfinance, (5) poverty impact of microfinance, (6 ...
Sharma, Manohar
core  

Mission Drift of large MFIs? [PDF]

Since the Mexican Microfinance Institution (MFI) Compartamos went public in 2007 – whereby promoting NGOs and private investors earned about USD 425 million – leading journals and magazines have repeatedly run rather sceptical articles about microfinance.
Ramana, N. V., Schmidt, Oliver
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Does Participation in Microfinance Programs Improve Household Incomes: Empirical Evidence From Makueni District, Kenya [PDF]

Although microfinance has elicited different reactions from different stakeholders, there seems to be a general agreement that it is useful in reducing poverty.
Kiiru, Joy M., Klaus, Flohberg, Mburu, John G.   +2 more
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Microfinance as Business [PDF]

We analyze microfinance institutions (MFIs) as businesses, asking how some succeed in covering costs, earning returns, attracting capital, and scaling up. We draw on existing literature and interviews with industry players and academics. Key microfinance
David Roodman, Uzma Qureshi
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