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The Impact of Microfinance Institutions on Poverty Alleviation
Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2022 Microfinancing has been targeted as a tool to address Poverty through the provision of credit to the poor and marginalised economic functions. However, the main objective upon which these institutions are founded is yet to manifest primarily in ...
Collin Chikwira +2 more
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Group versus Individual Lending in Microfinance [PDF]
, 2008 Microfinance is typically associated with joint liability of group members. However, a large part of microfinance institutions rather offers individual instead of group loans. We analyze the incentive mechanisms in both individual and group contracts.
Lehner, Maria
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Financial Innovation, 2022 This paper conducts a scientometric analysis and systematic literature review to identify the trends in microfinance outcomes from the perspective of their recipients, specifically more vulnerable people, while also focusing on the demand side.
João Paulo Ribeiro +2 more
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Microfinance and Diversification
Economica, 2022 The bulk of the world's extreme poor work in subsistence agriculture. Diversification out of this activity is often seen as the sine qua non of economic development. We evaluate whether the roll‐out of a mainstay development intervention—microfinance—into poor, agricultural and largely unbanked populations in rural Uganda helps borrowers to diversify ...
Bandiera, Oriana +6 more
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International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, 2022 This research examines the influence of microfinance services on the socioeconomic performance of Malaysian B40 households, which are considered vulnerable communities in Malaysia.
W. Abdullah +3 more
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Green Microfinance and Women’s Empowerment: Why Does Financial Literacy Matter?
Sustainability, 2022 This study investigated the role of financial literacy in the relationship between women’s empowerment and green microfinance. We set a conceptual model with green microfinance as an outcome variable, financial literacy as a mediating variable, and women’
Cheng-Wen Lee, A. Huruta
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, 2021 Fintech innovations are rapidly transforming the global financial industry and easing the financial inclusion initiatives of microfinance institutions (MFIs).
Hasanul Banna +3 more
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The Relationship between Culture and Social Capital with the Sustainability of Microfinance
International Research Journal of Business Studies, 2020 Poverty has been the biggest problem around the world and one of the innovative solutions offered is microfinance. Since the success story of Grameen Bank spread, many countries decided to adopt microfinance programs to alleviate poverty. Microfinance is
Nur Firdaus
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Islamic microfinance: A bibliometric review
Global Finance Journal, 2021 This paper quantitatively analyzes the literature on Islamic microfinance from early 2000 to 2020, as represented by English-language articles from the Scopus database.
M. Hassan +3 more
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Impact of microfinance on women’s economic empowerment
Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2022 Women’s economic empowerment a strategy aimed at enabling women in decision-making, increment in income and asset ownership. The main aim of the study is to examine the impact of microfinance on women’s economic empowerment.
Belay Mengstie
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