Microfinance: Creating Opportunities for the Poor?

By Susanna Khavul. 2010

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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IS MICROCREDIT A BLESSING FOR THE POOR? A META-ANALYSIS (2015, background): “MC schemes refer to “the issuance of small, unsecured loans to individuals or groups for the purpose of starting or expanding businesses” (Khavul, 2010, p. 58).”
Bankers at the gate: Microfinance and the high cost of borrowed logics (2012, background): “debt among borrowers who resort to taking loans from multiple banks, (Khavul, 2010; Simanowitz, 2011) or face social exclusion and intimidation when they run into financial difficulties (Simanowitz, 2011; Tharoor, 2011).”
The institutional context of poverty: State fragility as a predictor of cross‐national variation in commercial microfinance lending (2014, background): “MIX is frequently cited as the industry’s most reliable and comprehensive data source (Gonzalez and Rosenberg, 2006; Khavul, 2010).”
Sustainable business models as boundary-spanning systems of value transfers (2018, unknown): “Another lens specifies the inquiry into sustainability in BMs by considering the base of the pyramid as the research context (Khavul, 2010; Khavul and Bruton, 2013).”
How does microfinance enhance entrepreneurial outcomes in emerging economies? The mediating mechanisms of psychological and social capital (2014, background): “We introduce this model in response to calls by researchers in the management field to investigate the factors which contribute to the success of microfinance initiatives, in terms of the processes by which they foster entrepreneurship (Khavul, 2010; Phan, 2009).”
Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toward Poverty Reduction (2019, background): “The remediation perspectives thus holds that entrepreneurial activity can be better funded and that entrepreneurship among the poor will result in a ‘win-win’ that benefits all participants (e.g., London, 2009; Khavul 2010).”
Crowdfunding in a Prosocial Microlending Environment: Examining the Role of Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Cues (2015, background): “Although moneylenders may provide sufficient levels of financial capital to support startup and growth needs, these loans are often accompanied by interest rates that exceed 100 percent (Khavul, 2010).”
Funding the story of hybrid ventures: Crowdfunder lending preferences and linguistic hybridity (2017, background): “The primary purpose of microcredit is to provide financing to enable microenterprises that do not have access to traditional financing to start or expand their business and improve their financial well-being (Chliova et al., 2015; Khavul 2010, Yunus 1998).”