Finance - Matches

In recent years, the government substituted its former supply-led approach in credit financing with a more nontraditional and liberal approach: microf..

This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that make it possible for microfinance..

Few studies on microfinance have delved on its development from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. This Policy Notes focu..

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. It employs poverty dec..

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..

This Policy Notes looks at the issue of gender concerns in credit cooperatives from a different perspective. Specifically, it looks at the implication..

What led to the dynamic growth of the microfinance market in the Philippines? According to Dr. Gilberto Llanto in this Policy Notes, the microfinance ..

To be of continuous and reliable service to poor families with small businesses, microfinance institutions (MFIs) must operate in a sustainable ma..

In order to promote microfinance or the provision of a broad range of financial services to poor and low-income households for their microenterprises ..

The paper provides an assessment of the Community Mortgage Program as a government-housing program for households belonging to the lowest income decil..

This book is a critical study on housing subsidies, one of the principal instruments the government uses to provide the lower income segment of the po..

This paper has reviewed existing policies and programs to encourage banks to expand their financial services to micro, small- and medium-sized ent..

This study evaluates the absorptive capacity of a government agency for domestic and external funds. It takes the case of the Department of Public Wor..

This Notes outlines the sad experience of the supply-led credit policy and subsidized direct credit programs (DCPs) in the Philippines. Said failure h..

Microfinance banks have, through the years, shown a remarkable ability to reach low-income borrowers, most of whom do not have bankable assets to serv..