Although the word finance is in the term microfinance, and the core elements of microfinance
are those of the finance discipline, microfinance has yet to break into the mainstream or …

The idea that small loans can help poor families build businesses and exit poverty has
blossomed into a global movement. The concept has captured the public imagination, drawn …

Credit cooperatives were widespread in nineteenth-century Germany, which is surprising
given that country's highly developed banking system. One general explanation for the …

Six microcredit organizations of 19th-century Europe are compared to identify what
institutional designs were conducive to success and sustainability. Organizations that …

Five cases of failure within group‐based microfinance programs are presented. I argue that
group performance turns not only on the program's lending policies and cost structures …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed some lights on the process of mission drifting
or abandoning poverty objective by Islamic microfinance institutions (IMFs). The paper …

Through a close reading of scattered, disparate, and largely unconnected secondary
sources, supplemented with the analysis of primary sources, and backed by economic …

En 1864 Fermín Caballero afirmaba en su Memoria sobre el fomento de la población rural,
probablemente la obra de economía agraria de más éxito de la España del siglo XIX, que la …

Ireland's loan funds were a long-lived, self-sustaining, large-scale microfinance organization
that made millions of loans, without collateral, to the poor. During the first 100 years of their …

In this paper, a positive organizational ethics (POE)-based framework is informed by the
microfinance and socially responsible investing movements to capture the process of …