Most of the world’s poor face large risks, which affect their investment decisions and contribute to the perpetuation of poverty (Karlan et al. forthcoming). In this context, insurance products targeted at the poor are seen as having substantial promise, as opportunities both to make profit and to improve efficiency and social welfare. The marketing of insurance products to the poor has faced t...

This paper focuses on the banking correspondent’s network as social innovation NETWORK. We argue that banking correspondents are contributing to achieve societal goals of reducing poverty under conditions of knowledge sharing of microfinance technologies among social relevant groups. More specifically, we are looking at how to propagate bank’s microfinance services within low-income communities...

Microfinance is considered a better solution for the fight against poverty. It allows integration of excluded into productive activity. The current challenge MFIs (microfinance institutions) to seek their durability and sustainability, in order be able achieve objective. Sustainability can defined as ability institutions maintain sustainability actions. assessed through three dimensions, namely...

Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) face unique challenges since it must achieve a double bottom line— outreach and sustainability. So is microfinance worthwhile or worthless? The proper performance measurement framework here is a better way to judge this than a simple measure of numbers. This paper seeks to present, to MFIs, a new rigorous performance measurement framework that incorporates the b...

India accounts for over one-third of the world's burden of lymphatic filariasis (LF). Although most coastal districts of Orissa state (eastern India) are LF-endemic, the western districts of Orissa are considered non-endemic. During a large-scale insecticide-treated bed net/microfinance trial, we tested one randomly selected adult (age 15-60 years) for LF from a random sample of microfinance-me...

A majority of the world’s impoverished lack adequate access to financial services. Typically, formal banks do not target the poor because lending without collateral is considered too risky. Poor households seeking credit are subsequently forced into informal markets where the prices are high, the quantities limited, and the methods of insuring repayment can be brutal. Since the poor arguably ne...

present paper intends to measure the determinants of performance of indian financial sector. the performance variables of banking sector and microfinance institutions in india are studied over a study period of six years i.e. 2006-07 to 2011-12. the financial sector of india is gaining strength over the years and its contribution to growth is overwhelming. banks are considered the main componen...

The impact of gender participation on the maturity crossed-due loans is observed in this study. Furthermore, associations between loans, their number, and loan issued physical collateral collective bail are also monitored using unbalanced panel data thirty microfinance companies. study investigates short- long-term link response predictor variables. It founded an exploratory descriptive researc...