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A framework for regulating microfinance institutions [PDF]
The continuum of institutions providing microfinance cannot develop fully without a regulatory environment conducive to their growth. Without such an environment, fragmentation and segmentation will continue to inhibit the institutional transformation of
Gallardo, Joselito +2 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how bureaucratic strategies for structuring the policy environment shape regulatory outcomes, focusing on the extent to which agencies achieve their original policy preferences. Drawing on resource dependence theory and bureaucratic politics, we conceptualize the policy environment in two dimensions: internal ...
João Pedro Haddad +1 more
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Covid-19 pandemic: Challenges and ways forward for the Indian microfinance institutions. [PDF]
J Public Aff, 2021 Sangwan S +3 more
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Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Access to finance is critical for rural non‐farm self‐employment businesses in Southeast Asia, but financial constraints and gender discrimination impede their growth. Existing literature largely overlooks vulnerable groups like rural household businesses.
Chung Thanh Phan +3 more
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On mission drift in microfinance institutions [PDF]
This paper sheds light on a poorly understood phenomenon in microfinance which is often referred to as "mission drift": A tendency reviewd by numerous microfinance institutions to extend larger average loan sizes in the process of scaling-up. .
Armendáriz, Beatriz, Szafarz, Ariane
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Tracking Aspirations: Neoliberal Education and Mobility for Cambodian Youth
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Cambodia, this article focuses on secondary students who aspire to social and spatial mobility. It examines how a subject‐based tracking system intersects with other facets of the educational landscape to stratify students along class lines.
Jennifer Estes
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Will microfinance continue to evolve into a mainstream asset class? Indications in favor and against [PDF]
The microfinance sector has been going through profound changes in the last decades: It evolved from a donor-based community, driven by philanthropic objectives, to a high growth market that is today attracting commercial investors who seek social impact
Kirchstein, Katja, Welvers, Kathleen
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Microfinance Institutions: Does Capital Structure Matter? [PDF]
Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) have risen to the forefront as invaluable institutions in the development process. Nevertheless, capital constraints have hindered the expansion of microfinance programs such that the demand for financial services still ...
Bogan, Vicki
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Helping Microfinance Become Commercially Sustainable [PDF]
, 2011 Microfinance primarily refers to the making of small loans to low-income individuals and the poor, to enable them to start or expand small businesses. Currently, most microfinance loans are made through nonprofit microfinance institutions (MFIs) that
Schwarcz, Steven L.
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Microfinance and Entrepreneurial Development in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2012 This research study investigates the impact of microfinance on entrepreneurial development of small scale enterprises in Nigeria and its global significance.
Agboola, Mayowa G., Osunde, C.
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