The field of microfinance emerged in the developing world as a vehicle to provide financial services to poor segments of population is gradually being seen as a profitable business opportunity. In the initial stages of development, these activities were perceived to be done with a service agenda. As the micro finance institutions (MFIs) began to mature, they started facing performance dilemma, ...

study of different islamic agreements efficiency in free of interest banking system through modern scientific approaches is of outmost importance. in this paper attempt has been made to study and compare the efficiency of charity loan agreement and cooperative agreements by dea approach in branches of mellat bank in kermanshah province as case study. in this direction, the data related to five ...

The 11th Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference (PAKDD 2007) hosted a data mining competition, co-organized by the Singapore Institute of Statistics. The data set is from a consumer finance company with the aim of finding solutions for a cross-selling business problem. The company currently has two databases, one for credit card holders and the other for home loan (mortgage...

Micro-lending has been introduced as an effective antipoverty tool in recent decades. However not all of micro-lending institutes are successful both in accomplishing their mission and in loan recovery. According to World Bank’s focus note (2006), less than a quarter of its projects that funded micro-lending were judged successful. This paper describes a specific type of micro-lending (Grameen ...

Improved sanitation access is extremely low in rural Cambodia. Non-governmental organizations have helped build local supply side latrine markets to promote household latrine purchase and use, but households cite inability to pay as a key barrier to purchase. To examine the extent to which microfinance can be used to facilitate household investment in sanitation, we applied a twopronged assessm...