Microfinance - Matches

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

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

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

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

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

This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that make it possible for 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 paper has reviewed existing policies and programs to encourage banks to expand their financial services to micro, small- and medium-sized ent..

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..

This paper has re-examined the role of Land Bank of the Philippines, a government-owned bank, in light of the recent reforms and developments in the P..

With housing policy declared as a priority policy concern of the Estrada administration, it is only logical to expect that an effective and sustainabl..