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Financial Inclusion and Resilience: How BRAC’s Microfinance Program Recovered from the West Africa Ebola Crisis
This case study explores how BRAC's microfinance companies in Liberia and Sierra Leone responded to the Ebola crisis in 2014, enabling to deliver a remarkable recovery of its operations.
National Study on Women's Access to Financing in Sierra Leone
What issues affect the ability of women to engage in productive economic activity?
Sierra Leone: The Impact of the Ebola Crisis on the Microfinance Sector and Stories of Microentrepreneurs' Resilience
Findings from 84 client interviews and data from 9 microfinance institutions
Rural Finance and Poverty Alleviation
Does the formal sector have lessons to learn from the informal sector?
CGAP's Pilot Microfinance Capacity-building Initiative in Africa: What Have We Learned?
Analyzing the rationale, objectives, costs and results of the Pilot Initiative
UNDP Microfinance Assessment Report: Sierra Leone
How can micro-lending programme succeed in the face of pressures toward capital accumulation?
Rural Financial Policies for Food Security of the Poor: Methodologies for a Multi-country Research Project
Identifying policies and institutional arrangements for access to savings and credit systems
Imperfect Information, Social Capital and The Poor's Access to Credit
Microfinance institutions gained success through the trust and mutual support of their field workers
Microfinance and the Empowerment of Women - A Review of the Key Issues
Empowerment cannot be assumed to be an automatic outcome of microfinance programmes for women
Consumption Credit in Rural Financial Market Development
Do financial institutions limiting services to credit for productive purposes ignore rural clients?