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 …

Acknowledgements With thanks to our host institutions, the Universities of London and
Johannesburg, our funder, the UK Department for International Development and in …

Poverty is a threat to peace and results in denial of all human rights. Microfinance spread
across the globe as a means to alleviate poverty in the early seventies, invented by …

Access to rural financial services has a potential to make a difference in agricultural
productivity, food security, and poverty reduction. However, an efficient, sustainable and …

Objectives Medical training has long been globally recognised as involving numerous
stressors that can affect the well-being of students. This study, the first to be conducted …

A basic intellectual challenge for those concerned with the poverty of nations is to come to
grips with the nature and causes of the wealth of the world's wealthier nations. One might …

Purpose–Microcredit has become a popular tool for women's socioeconomic development
across the globe. The purpose of this study is to examine the influences of gender ideology …

The role played by microfinancing in the empowerment of women has been a subject of
debate in recent literature. By employing the case study method, this paper explores the …

Over the last three decades, micro-credit has gained prominence worldwide in reducing
poverty on a global scale. As an efficient socio-economic financial mechanism, micro-credit …

Evidence on the relation between women's microcredit participation and their exposure to
marital violence has been inconsistent across studies. This study examined how women's …