Today, practitioners are working in places where conflict is resurgent and political stability is tenuous at best. This Progress Note explores the key ingredients to the success of microfinanc…
2008 | Asli Demirgüc Kunt, Leora F. Klapper, and Georgios A. Panos
We examine the factors affecting the transition to self-employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, using a panel household survey for the years 2001-2004. In the beginning of the sample the country…
As the microfinance sector has come under more intense scrutiny than ever before, responsible finance initiatives have picked up steam. Hundreds of organizations from across the industry (prov…
Early microfinance pioneers created the sector with the aspiration to improve poor people’s lives. There were huge swathes of “white space” where low-income households had li…
USAID’s AMAP Knowledge Generation (KG) research on Microfinance amid Conflict3 began in 2003 with a focus on identifying best practices among microfinance organizations in conflict count…