Microfinance services available to the poorest people, especially investment loans for micro-business development, are recognized as an important part of poverty reduction strategies. As the industry matures, MFIs face a competitive environment, forcing them to balance the goals of outreach and sustainability. However, in spite of its successes, microfinance has not been able to reach to the po...

Deep global poverty persists despite decades of coordinated development efforts seeking to eradicate it. Recent literature has taken a new approach to defining the underlying mechanisms of lasting poverty in terms of asset ownership and the ways in which households accumulate productive assets over time. Using a panel data set from Bangladesh, this study identifies the productive assets of rura...

BACKGROUND Economic constraints may lead to poor health among people from the developing world. Microfinance has proven to be useful in improving health outcomes elsewhere, but it still remains a neglected issue in Nepal. This study aims to assess perceived usefulness of the microfinance on health awareness and practices among different ethnic groups of Nepal. METHOD A community-based cross-s...

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected many aspects. Not only for MSMEs but also Islamic microfinanceinstitutions. This study aims to determine the strategy of microfinance institutions, namely KSPPS BMTAirlangga Bakti Persada during pandemic. research uses a descriptive qualitative approachwith case method. results this indicate that BMT Airlangga acertain so it can survive in era. includes risk m...

This paper analyses the use of microfinance as an intervention tool against child labour in the footwear sector in Biñan, Laguna Province, the Philippines. Based on a microfinance programme implemented as part of an ILO/IPEC project to eliminate child labour in the footwear sector, the study focuses on the structure of the sector and the division of labour within the households and analyses how...

(2011) Economic evaluation of a combined microfinance and gender training intervention for the prevention of intimate partner violence in rural South Africa. Key messages o There is increasing interest in the development of interventions that in resource poor settings combine health with economic and social development initiatives such as microfinance o Not much evidence currently exists of the...

Microfinance has entered the phase of rapid development and it has become one of the most important businesses in commercial banks. This study set up an evaluation system based on the balanced scorecard and used the fuzzy-rough set approach to evaluate the microfinance performance. Firstly, this study designed the performance evaluation system from five dimensions according to the principals of...

Rooftops Canada, the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (a division of the FinMark Trust), and Habitat for Humanity International have been partners in the development of a subSaharan housing microfinance sector since 2008, following two housing microfinance workshops, held in Dar es Salaam in 2008 and Nairobi in 2010. Over 200 people from more than 15 African countries and ten oth...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the impacts of medium and long term participation in microfinance programs. It utilises a new, large and unique panel dataset collected from treatment and control households from 1997 to 2005. The data enables us to identify continuing participants in the program as well as newcomers and leavers. We employ different estimation strategies including trip...