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Citing impressive gains in the last three years, the author points out the bright prospects for microfinance as a major source of financing for small ..

How to frame efficient rural finance policies that would become potent tools for development remains as a challenge to policymakers. Over the past two..

In recent years, a number of lending instruments have been introduced and tried out in the area of housing finance. In the Philippines, a group lendin..

Few studies on microfinance have delved on its development from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. This Policy Notes focu..

What led to the dynamic growth of the microfinance market in the Philippines? According to Dr. Gilberto Llanto in this Policy Notes, the microfinance ..

In recent years, the government substituted its former supply-led approach in credit financing with a more nontraditional and liberal approach: microf..

Microfinance is an emerging important financial subsector in Asian transition countries. Its role is to improve financial access of the poor and small..

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty alleviation. It employs poverty dec..

This paper describes some emerging innovations in microfinance observed in Southeast Asian microfinance markets that make it possible for microfinance..

This Policy Notes looks at the issue of gender concerns in credit cooperatives from a different perspective. Specifically, it looks at the implication..

To be of continuous and reliable service to poor families with small businesses, microfinance institutions (MFIs) must operate in a sustainable ma..

In order to promote microfinance or the provision of a broad range of financial services to poor and low-income households for their microenterprises ..

The paper provides an assessment of the Community Mortgage Program as a government-housing program for households belonging to the lowest income decil..

This book is a critical study on housing subsidies, one of the principal instruments the government uses to provide the lower income segment of the po..

This paper has reviewed existing policies and programs to encourage banks to expand their financial services to micro, small- and medium-sized ent..