Muslim-majority countries do not use formal financial services (Honohon 2007).1 Even when financial services are available, some people view conventional products as incompatible with the financial principles set forth in Islamic law. In recent years, some microfinance institutions (MFIs) have stepped in to service low-income Muslim clients who demand products consistent with Islamic financial ...

Microfinance has been developed as alternative solution for global poverty alleviation effort in the last 30 years. Microfinance institution (MFI) has unique characteristic wherein they face double bottom line objectives of outreach to the poor and financial sustainability. This study proposes a two-stage analysis to measure Islamic Microfinance institutions (IMFIs) performance by comparing the...

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the relevance of Islamic microfinance in the light of ongoing erosion of confidence in the viability of current financial system, full of speculatory finance in the prevailing global financial market. For example, the sub-prime crisis of 2007-2008 in the US with its effects all over the world was mainly due to the inadequate market discipline which i...

The present study has been conducted to investigate the impact of Cooperative Microfinance Program (CMFP i-e Islamic Relief-Pakistan] on the standard of life of poor marginalized masses. Secondary, time series, ranging from 2002-2008 about the Disbursement of funds, number of beneficiaries [gender wise], financing methods have been taken from the reports of Islamic Relief. Numbers of beneficiar...

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This paper quantitatively analyzes the literature on Islamic microfinance from early 2000 to 2020, as represented by English-language articles Scopus database. Using a bibliometric approach plus content analysis, we describe field's evolution and structure, including co-citation, co-authorship, bibliographical coupling. We find that Malaysia is most relevant country, International University (I...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, İslami mikrofinans ile ilgili yapılan çalışmaların bir dökümünü sunarak literatürünün genel resmini ortaya koymaktır. Çalışmada nitel araştırma yaklaşımı benimsenmiş ve veri toplama tekniği olarak doküman incelemesinden faydalanılmıştır. konusunda akademik çalışmalar Sciencedirect, Google Scholar, EBSCO YÖK Ulusal Tez Merkezi tabanlarından tespit edilerek içerik analizine t...