Motivation Although female clients are the main target of most Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), male–female workforce ratio in microfinance operations is not proportionate. There a consensus that greater presence at all hierarchical levels could enhance financial performance MFIs thanks to women’s tougher commitments and better managing capacity. Purpose scarce research investigating which con...

The performance of Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) has been affected negatively by the current hypercompetitive economic environment which beencharacterised as unfair competition. Huge losses have reported among MFIs in Kenya, this forced to innovate differently; product, financial, organisational or market innovation. This not yielded better results. study sought establish moderating effect ...

Distributing loan using group lending method is one of the unique features in microfinance, as it utilises peer monitoring and dynamic incentive to lower credit risks in extending collateral-free loan to the poor. However, many microfinance institutions (MFIs) eventually perceive it to be costly and restricting loan growth thereby resorted to individual lending method to enhance profitability. ...

Microfinance programs play a vital role in poverty alleviation developing countries; however, most microfinance institutions (MFIs) face the challenge of maintaining financial sustainability. While several studies have investigated factors affecting MFI sustainability, only few focus on MFIs Thailand. This paper uses random effect model to study determinants Thai MFIs’ Results show that sustain...

Taking advantage of the passage a microfinance law in Italy (2014), we explore rationales for introducing microfinance-specific regulation high-income welfare states and potential effects that this process may have on MFIs’ social financial performances (i.e. double bottom line). Our findings suggest institutional transformation MFIs, addition to product design target group required by new regu...

Purpose This study seeks to identify the factors that are associated with digital transformation of microfinance institutions (MFIs). Design/methodology/approach The employs probit models investigate likelihood integrating solutions by MFIs and Heckman for robustness checks. Findings findings reveal adoption these tools is consistent social performance MFIs. Furthermore, profitability their hom...

Micro-finance institutions (MFIs) as financial intermediaries, help poor to come out of extreme poverty through the purposeful lending those looking generate income for livelihood needs. These micro-finance need good governance ensure improved performance achieve sustainability and growth. The review literature has produced mixed results in studies on influence microfinance institutions. There ...

fatigue is one of the most frequent symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis (ms) and it is difficult to clarify the nature of this symptom and manage it. this study was aimed to evaluate the frequency of fatigue, depression and sleep disturbances in iranian patients with ms. 100 patients from the outpatient ms clinic of sina hospital were asked to complete beck depression inventory (bdi), ...