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Microfinance as a Tool to Support Europe’s Missing Entrepreneurs
The ex post evaluation of the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) including the final evaluation of the European Progress Microfinance Facility (EPMF)
This Staff Working Document evaluates the Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) Programme and the European Progress Microfinance Facility (EPMF), assessing their impact…
Microfinance in Europe: Survey Report 2024
This is the 12th edition of the Survey Report on Microfinance in Europe, produced by the European Microfinance Network and the Microfinance…
Microfinance in Europe: Survey Report (2023 edition)
he 2023 edition of the Microfinance Survey in Europe offers a snapshot of the microfinance sector from 2022, marking the first annual…
Microfinance in Europe: Survey Report (2022 edition)
The 2022 edition of the Microfinance Survey in Europe offers a snapshot of the microfinance sector from 2020-2021, during and after the…
Microfinance in Europe Survey Report 2020
This Overview Survey presents a snapshot of the microfinance sector from 2018-2019, before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, since the…
Report from the Commission on the mid-term evaluation of the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI)
This European Commission staff working document (SWD) reports on the mid-term evaluation of the Employment and Social Innovation programme for 2014-2020 (EaSI)…
Microfinance in the North: Where Do We Stand?
This article examines the development of microfinance in developed countries, where it emerged in the late 1980s but continues to represent a…
Gender Biases in Bank Lending: Lessons from Microcredit in France
To capture gender biases in banks’ loan allocations, this paper observe the impact on the applicants of a microfinance institution (MFI) and…
Business Training and Loan Repayment: Theory and Evidence from Microcredit in France
Using data from a French MFI, the article investigate the effect of business training on loan repayment, controlling for the process of…
Can microfinance regulation encourage mission drift? The Italian case
This paper aims to explore whether the introduction of microfinance regulation might affect the way in which MFIs manage their double bottom…