what are the main success factors of microfinance institutions in providing financial services to poor people in a sustainable manner? in this article we try to answer this question. in one hand, we analyze the core compatibility between microeconomics of asymmetric information, transaction cost and risk, and new different operational mechanisms applied by microfinance institutions. on the othe...

This paper aims to comprehend the intrinsic limitations of the market players in the financial system and how these create a situation of `missing middle` for small and medium industries (SME) financing in Bangladesh. A clear dualism prevails in the manufacturing industry of this country. While the SMEs maintains the biggest share in establishments and employment creation, large enterprises (LE...

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) play a significant role in financial-inclusion and poverty-alleviation activities. A critical challenge facing MFIs is of how they all can build their own capacity for sustainable healthy development. By using the data from pilot survey 65 microcredit companies Zhejiang, China, this paper explores factors affecting activities by principal component analysis anal...

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to disadvantaged people and financially excluded, often with a social mission poverty alleviation women empowerment. There are many different forms microfinance institutions (MFIs): for-profit, not-for-profit state-owned, all which use strategies improve socio-economic status their clients. The objective this paper examine alternative MFIs in ...

The poverty reduction and financial inclusion of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030 can be significantly facilitated the microfinance industry. However, it is pertinent to assess sustainability institutions (MFIs) in serving this purpose. estimation productivity MFIs Bangladesh gives a glimpse their ability fulfil dual objectives social outreach. Hence, study aims measure using seconda...

The study examines the effect of capital structure on financial performance and sustainability Microfinance Institutions in Ghana. We investigate role debt-to-equity ratio, equity-to-asset deposit-to-loan ratio guaranteeing sustainability. implement multiple regression methods to relationship between observed indicators a set explanatory variables. empirical analysis involves 51 Ghanaian MFIs r...

Abstract This article aims to present current research trends in microfinance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) institutions (MFIs), as plays an increasingly role entrepreneurship development poverty alleviation. The study uses a bibliometric analysis, this work, we performed citation, bibliographic coupling, keyword evolution analyses. results show that SMEs continue grow. authors found ...

Employee turnover is a crucial Human Resource (HR) challenge faced by Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), which are labour-intensive businesses providing financial services to the poor and underprivileged section of society. Despite extreme attrition rate, there limited empirical research on factors inducing intention among microfinance employees. Hence, this study aims explore employee in MFIs i...

This paper investigates the relative importance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) at both macro (financial development, economic growth, income inequality, and poverty) micro levels (efficiency traditional commercial banks). We observe a significant impact on most fronts. MFIs’ participation increases overall savings (total bank deposits) credit allocation (loans to private sector) in economy...

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, ...