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Microfinance [PDF]

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This book takes a solid step toward a systematic analysis of the implications of microfinance for the role and regulation of capital markets. The authors address integration of capital markets with microfinance, technological innovations such as the use of mobile phone technology, the consequences of women’s access to micro-loan borrowings, and the ...
Sharma, Manohar
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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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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   +2 more
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THE FUTURE OF MICROFINANCE

2009
In this short chapter we consider the future of microfinance – the ways in which the sector may evolve over coming years. This is not an attempt to predict what will happen – that would be foolish. Rather, we try to identify key processes that are shaping and will shape the microfinance sector.
Hulme, D; id_orcid 0000-0002-4111-1589   +1 more
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The impact of COVID-19 on the efficiency of microfinance institutions

International Review of Economics and Finance, 2020
This study investigates the effect of the COVID-19-induced decline in economic activities on the financial and social efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs).
C. Zheng, Junru Zhang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Microfinance in India: An Overview of Microfinance and SWOT Analysis of Microfinance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This paper appraises options for research relating to microfinance in India, doing so in the broad context of rival macro pressures to accelerate economic growth, maintain political order, reduce poverty and adapt to climate change. This paper first set out a general well-being regime framework that can be used for this analysis and sketch the role ...
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Microfinance and entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2021
Using a proprietary dataset on ...
Jasjit Singh, Pushan Dutt, A. Adbi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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   +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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