Is microfinance an effective strategy to reach the Millennium Development Goals

By J. Morduch, E. Littlefield, Syed Hashemi. 2003

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• Women Empowerment Through Microfinance: Empirical Evidence from Ghana (2017, background): “They further brought to fore that access to microfinance can empower women to commit themselves to children’s education, become more confident, more assertive, more likely to take part in family and community decisions and better able to confront gender inequities [43].”
• Intellectual capital: company's invisible source of competitive advantage (2013, background): “This orientation has changed the strategy of microfinance to the extent that most pioneering microfinance institutions that considered microfinance a social-mission-oriented activity resorted to providing their products on a commercial basis (Littlefield et al., 2003).”
• Competitive advantage: mediator of intellectual capital and performance (2011, background): “to the extent that most pioneering microfinance institutions that considered microfinance as a social-mission-oriented activity resorted to providing their products on commercial basis (Littlefield et al., 2003).”
• Banking for the poor: the role of Islamic banking in microfinance initiatives (2008, background): “It emphasises institutional and programme innovations to reduce costs and risks and has greater potential to expand the financial frontier to the poor in sustainable manner (Littlefield et al., 2003).”
• Intellectual capital and performance: testing interaction effects (2010, background): “This industry is complex and highly innovative (Kalyango, 2004), with great potential to expand the financial frontier to the poor in a sustainable manner (Littlefield et al., 2003), and to a great extent dependent on intellectual capital for a source of renewal (Sharabati et al.”
• Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth (2007, background): “…by providing small loans mainly for non-agricultural microenterprise activities, have had a significant positive effect on household incomes and assets, child schooling, child and maternal health, and the empowerment of female borrowers (see Littlefield et al. 2003 for a review of the evidence).”