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Empowering vulnerable microfinance women through entrepreneurship: opportunities, challenges and the way forward

International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 2021
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore how vulnerabilities arising from physical impairments, age, widowhood, forced displacement due to war or natural disasters and sexual orientation affect women’s microfinance-related entrepreneurial ...
Nadeera Ranabahu, F. Tanima
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The Exclusionary Power of Microfinance

Sociology of Development, 2021
In recent years, international banks, investment agencies, and development institutions have created new markets for capital accumulation by rapidly expanding the commercial microfinance industry in the global South.
W. N. Green, M. Bylander
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Knowledge mapping of microfinance performance research: a bibliometric analysis

International Journal of Social Economics, 2021
PurposePerformance assessment of microfinance institutions (MFIs) has long been a question of considerable research interest. The dual goals – financial performance and social performance of MFIs widely studied yet remain unsolved in the existing ...
Shabiha Akter, Md Hamid Uddin, A. Tajuddin   +2 more
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Financial inclusion enhancement through the adoption of Islamic microfinance in Nigeria

International Journal of Ethics and Systems, 2021
Purpose This paper aims to examine the determinants of intention to adopt Islamic microfinance among prospective customers in Nigeria, to enhance access to formal financial services.
A. Abdullahi, Anwar Hasan Abdullah Othman   +1 more
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Adopting Islamic microfinance as a mechanism of financing small and medium enterprises in Uganda

, 2021
Despite the fact that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in strengthening the financial sector within developing and emerging economies through providing employment opportunities to the rural and urban population, capacity building ...
Ssemambo Hussein Kakembo, Muhamad Abduh, Pg Md Hasnol Alwee Pg Hj Md Salleh   +2 more
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Does competition enhance the double-bottom-line performance of microfinance institutions?

, 2020
This paper investigates how competition affects the double-bottom-line performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs). While classical economic theory highlights that competition enhances efficiency and benefits both customers and firms, we argue that ...
S. Hossain, J. Galbreath, M. Hasan, Trond Randøy   +3 more
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Microfinance

2022
The objective of this chapter is to analyse the financial sustainability versus the social impact of microfinance institutions. To carry out the study, several social and financial benchmarks for entities specialized in evaluating the performance of microfinance institutions (such as MIX and Planet Rating), and which are normally used in similar ...
Nuno Miguel Delicado Teixeira, Boguslawa Sardinha, Rui Brites, Rosa Galvão   +3 more
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Microfinance Performance

2006
The chapter proposes a model of performance analysis for microfinance programs and institutions in order to evaluate actual and expected results. This chapter presents a brief reconstruction of the methodologies currently used in microfinance for performance analysis, identifying the main characteristics of each, the areas of analysis considered by ...
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Analyzing the relationship between financial literacy and financial inclusion by microfinance banks in developing countries: social network theoretical approach

International journal of sociology and social policy, 2020
PurposeThe main purpose of this study is to establish the mediating effect of social network in the relationship between financial literacy and financial inclusion of the poor by microfinance banks in developing countries.Design/methodology/approachThe ...
George Okello Candiya Bongomin, Joseph M. Ntayi, Charles Akol Malinga   +2 more
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Impact of Microfinance on Economic, Social, Political and Psychological Empowerment: Evidence from Women’s Self-help Groups in Kashmir Valley, India

FIIB Business Review, 2020
The present study attempts to examine the impact of microfinance on certain dimensions of women empowerment, namely economic, social, political and psychological.
S. Khan, Mohd. Abass Bhat, Mohi-ud-din Sangmi   +2 more
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