Our study explores the impact financial crisis has on performance of microfinance institutions in Zimbabwe employing Vector Autoregression using annual time series data from 1990 to 2018. The findings our revealed a positive Microfinance Institutions. We also found effect gross domestic product, money supply, first lag inflation and exchange rates while second negative effect. Variance decompos...

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been promoted worldwide as developmental platforms that can help eliminate some of the major global challenges such poverty and economic development. The effectiveness using MFIs to fulfil expectations depends on their performance, which be affected by a range institutional factors corruption, rule law financial sector However, there is lack clarity whether...

Abstract This study investigates the development intervention of microfinance programs with women borrowers in strong patriarchal communities such as rural Bangladesh. Using Rahman's framework (1999) 'public transcript' vs. 'hidden transcript', we describe how women's structural vulnerability is understood and leveraged by institutions (MFIs). The findings this paper based on data from 331 surv...

Microfinance has been a topic of much interest recently, in particular the question of whether microfinance institutions can help poor clients while remaining financially sustainable. Recent research has fed hope that they can, suggesting that microfinance institutions are financially resilient to downturns in the domestic marketplace. Not only does this suggest that microfinance institutions m...

Innovations enhance long and short-term decisions making towards remaining competitive in the business environment. MFIs Kenya more so Narok Town are no exception. The study sought to assess effect of product innovation strategies on growth microfinance institutions Kenya, Town. research adopted cross-sectional design a census was applied 180 respondents employed 11 registered MFIs. Primary Sec...

Purpose This study aims to contribute the extant literature by assessing how microfinance institutions (MFIs) affect female entrepreneurship, contingent on unemployment levels. Design/methodology/approach The focuses 44 countries in sub-Saharan Africa for period 2004–2018. empirical evidence is based interactive quantile regressions, which put emphasis nations with high, low and intermediate le...

Purpose of the study: The microfinance industry has been developed significantly last two decades. It is fast becoming a household name globally and one key contributors to social-economic development. Sustainability depends on several factors encounters numerous challenges. purpose study examine whether there relationship between risk management sustainability in Sri Lanka. Methodology: A simp...

Microfinance is used to enhance micro and small enterprise start-up growth in developing countries. Although there some discussion of how microfinance institutional activities lead their own sustainability the extant literature, same cannot be said ways which institutions shape agendas enterprises (MSEs). In this paper, we conceptualise explain way that joint liability lending shapes owned by b...