This paper explores how changes in monetary staff incentive contracts affect the productivity of credit officers within microfinance institutions. The study uses a unique data set from five microfinance institutions that includes productivity data at the credit officer level for several months before and after a change in the incentive schemes. In each of the institutions, the monetary incentiv...

This study aimed to analyze out the role of microfinance in perspective women empowerment socio-economic aspects, and also reviewed some past studies relevant impact empowering women. Microfinance is basic tool reduce poverty- provide a better livelihood improve social, economic personal lives As are always considered as poor segment society because mainly do not participate directly income gen...

Abstract In developing countries, women’s empowerment is a major concern. Several efforts were made to tackle this issue as the aims of poverty reduction and development cannot be achieved without giving attention empowerment. Over past decades, microfinance institutions (MFIs) have appeared crucial tools not only address but also particularly empower women. Resultantly, huge number studies foc...

Abstract Despite the relevance of crowdfunding as a financing tool for underrepresented entrepreneurs, prior research pays scant attention to funding gap refugee entrepreneurs. Using composite framework that integrates both entrepreneurship and signalling theory, current study investigates how microfinance institutions (MFIs) entrepreneurs can deploy signals pursue entrepreneurial opportunities...

Access to credit for financing agro-processing enterprises has been one of the critical constraints facing small-scale women agro-processors in developing countries. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have hailed providing tailored-made financial products such businesses. However, use borrowed money from MFIs is improvement general well-being borrowers. This paper presents findings a study that e...

Answering surveys is usually voluntary, yet much of our knowledge depends on the willingness of households and institutions to answer. We explore the implications of voluntary reporting on knowledge about microfinance. We show systematic biases in microfinance institutions’ choices about which survey to respond to and which specific indicators to report. The analysis focuses on data for 2,072 m...

Microfinance institutions focus on providing financial services for low-income citizens who typically lack access to traditional banking systems. In recent years there has been an significant growth in the number of online microlending sites that connect lenders to microfinance institutions and individuals that require funding. Although traditional (offline) microfinance has been widely studied...

According to the United Nations (UN), in 2002 almost one-fifth of the world population (i e, 1.3 billion people) was living in extreme poverty, earning less than one dollar a day. In recent public debates microfinance has been mentioned as an important instrument to combat poverty. Therefore, microfinance has received a lot of attention, both from policy-makers as well as in academic circles. E...

Abstract This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality reduction at macro level for a sample 57 developing countries periods 2000–2006 2007–2013. study adopts methodologies, such as ordinary least square (OLS), pooled (POLS) instrumental variables (IV) estimations overcome endogeneity problems among variables. Empirical results sh...