Essays about: "thesis on social impact of microfinance"

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  1. 1. Digital Microfinance in a ‘Digital Bangladesh’ - Organizational Challenges for Microfinance Institutes towards Digital Financial Inclusion

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Aquib MD Sadman Bari; [2021]
    Keywords : Microfinance; Digitization; Financial Inclusion; Digital Financial Services; Bangladesh; Diffusion of innovations; Organizational capacity; Digital innovations; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to contribute to the growing concept of Digital Financial Inclusion by exploring the challenges that Microfinance Institutes (MFIs) experience to provide financial services to the unbanked population in Bangladesh. Though there is an emergence of digital financial services provided by the commercial banks based on the infrastructural development initiative taken by the Bangladeshi Government’s ‘Digital Bangladesh’ agenda, only a few MFIs are investing their resources in digital innovations to strengthen their activities. READ MORE

  3. 2. ACCESSING MICROFINANCE THROUGH FINANCIAL LITERACY : A Case Study of Hand in Hand Eastern Africa’s Operations in Kenya

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Företagsekonomi

    Author : Pontus Lindahl; Linda Mokvist; [2020]
    Keywords : Financial Literacy; Microfinance; Microcredit; Women Empowerment; Financial Inclusion; Social Capital; Social Learning Theory; Dynamic Capabilities; Poverty Alleviation; Developing Countries; Kenya; Bottom of the Pyramid; Hand in Hand andHand in Hand Eastern Africa;

    Abstract : In 2015, United Nations implemented seventeen Sustainable Development Goals along with 169 sub-targets with the ambition to transform the world through achieving sustainable development and, hence annihilate poverty. In light of the foregoing, both authoritative and non-governmental entities accentuated the significance of ‘financial inclusion’ which, in turn, has developed into an evangelical advocacy reminiscent of the extensive publicity that microfinance received at the end of last century which, in turn, has led to an unprecedented passion among philanthrocapitalists, transnational corporations, and other benefactors to financially and socially assist the impoverished. READ MORE

  4. 3. On the performance of microfinance investment funds - A quantitative study of the financial performance of 83 funds from 1998 to 2015

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Madeleine Brandt; Caroline Nacksten; [2015]
    Keywords : Microfinance investment vehicles; Microfinance investment funds; CAPM; Mutual fund performance; Socially responsible investments;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the financial performance of microfinance investment funds (MFIFs), which are social impact investments investing in microfinance institutions (MFIs). Given that microfinance customers live in developing regions and pursue entrepreneurial businesses, the returns of MFIFs are supposedly uncorrelated with developed markets, and therefore marketed as providing investors with a diversification benefit. READ MORE

  5. 4. The social impact of microfinance: what changes in well-being are perceived by women group borrowers after obtaining a group loan? : A participatory rural appraisal in Dar es Salaam Region, Tanzania

    University essay from Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Heleen de Goey; [2012]
    Keywords : Poverty alleviation; well-being; microcredit; women; participatory rural appraisal; sustainable development;

    Abstract : Worldwide, poverty remains to be an obstacle to achieve sustainable development and improve the well-being of people. Microfinance has become a popular tool for poverty alleviation and it can now be found in poor countries across the world. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Impact of Informal Institutions on Microfinance Performance

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Olle Berggren; [2012]
    Keywords : microfinance; new institutional economics; informal institutions; trust; culture; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : In recent years, microfinance has evolved as an alternative method of providing credit to poor borrowers in developing countries. Despite high expectations and appraisals, the performance of microfinance institutions has been found to differ significantly between different countries. READ MORE