Clays are components in the fine portion of aggregates, less than 75 microns in size (micro-fines), which are usually washed away when producing coarse or fine (manufactured sand) aggregates in quarries. When marginal sources of aggregates are being...
The flow boiling heat transfer is one of the common phenomenon happening in the industries. The micro-fin tubes are one of the geometries widely used to enhance heat transfer rate in boiling condition. The entropy generation analysis is presented wit...
It is difficult to collect fine graphite particles because of the large size and small specific area of traditional flotation bubbles. The contrast experiment between nanobubble flotation and traditional flotation of micro-fine flake graphite in the...
With the depletion and increasing demand of river sand, machine-made sand could be used more and more in concrete. In order to improve the properties of machine-made sand concrete, the effects of the aggregate micro fines (AMF) content, aluminum sulf...
Over the past few decades, microfinance institutions have attracted the interest of governments and academics alike, given their unique nature of being financial institutions with a dual mission of promoting social development and reducing poverty. H...
Income inequality is a major problem in Thailand. A key determinant of income inequality in Thailand is the lack of financial access to financial institutions for low-income families. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) play an important role in enablin...
This paper explores the factors influencing the sustainability of microfinance programmes in the OR Tambo Coastal District (ORTCD) in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The paper questions whether the services offered to microfinance clients can facilit...
The use of microfinance in poverty alleviation and, by extension, as an instrument for sustainable social and economic development, represents a novel idea in sustainable finance. This study employed science mapping to examine 4049 Scopus-indexed doc...
Since 1990, microfinance has gained universal recognition as an essential and useful tool to address the economically productive poor and provide them with a way to come out of the vicious circle of poverty, by delivering loans and credit on flexible...
The co-occurring relationships between ilmenite and gangue minerals in ilmenite deposits, as well as fine mineral embedding particle sizes, are complex. During the beneficiation process, grinding ilmenite finely is necessary to achieve sufficient ind...
Microfinance has become one of the most important financing alternatives for business start-ups, especially for vulnerable groups in poor regions. Microfinance provides access to financial products, especially to people who have been excluded from th...
This study investigated the role of financial literacy in the relationship between women’s empowerment and green microfinance. We set a conceptual model with green microfinance as an outcome variable, financial literacy as a mediating variable,...
This article analyzes the moderating effect the degree of economic growth has on the relationship between the development of the financial system and the microfinance industry activity. The hypotheses proposed establish that the influence of the deve...
Micro-dosing of fine cohesive powders is the key technology in additive manufacturing and especially in high-potency active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPI). However, high accuracy micro-dosing (<5 mg) of fine cohesive powder is less trivial and...
Although one of the primary objectives of microfinance has been the reduction of poverty through the provision of credit for income-generating purposes, evidence of its impact on poverty has been mixed. Even if there is no direct impact of microfinan...
Topic: This review explores the important issue of the ‘institutional sustainability’ (IS) of faith-based development organizations (FBDOs) providing microfinance services to the poor in the developing world. IS has often been equated wit...
Poverty is a universal reality, and no one can deny the omnipresence of it all over the world. It is considered as the most harmful economic and social problem of human beings since their creation. It affects individuals as well as society as a whole...
A database for flowing condensation of three hydrocarbons, namely propane (R290), isobutane (R600a), and propylene (R1270), is extended by experimental tests in a smooth tube and two microfinned tubes with an increase of heat exchange area of 1.51 an...
In the last few years, considerable attention has been paid to microfinance as a relevant participant in the formal financial system, whose target audience is people who are otherwise at risk of financial exclusion. In parallel, sustainability and th...
The bed pressure drop, minimum fluidized gas velocity, bed density, and bed expansion rate are important parameters characterizing the fluidization characteristics of gas-solid fluidized beds. By analyzing these parameters, the advantages and disadva...
Microfinance is used to enhance micro and small enterprise start-up and growth in developing countries. Although there is some discussion of how microfinance institutional activities lead to their own sustainability in the extant literature, the same...
The results of numerical investigations of heat transfer and pressure drops in a channel with 30° helical micro-fins are presented. The main aim of the analysis is to examine the influence of the height of the micro-fins on the heat-flow characterist...
Flotation in the mining industry is a very significant separation technique. It is known that fine and ultra-fine particles are difficult to float, leading to losses of valuable minerals, mainly due to their low collision efficiency with bubbles. Flo...
The regulation of microfinance services is likely to have a wide-ranging influence on the microfinance sector, particularly on institutions and their clients. This paper reveals the impact of a specific regulatory regime, the “Microcredit Regul...
The article presents the results of numerical studies of heat transfer and pressure drops in a channel with transverse micro-fins. The main aim of the study was to prepare the thermal and flow characteristics of such a channel for a variable longitud...
This research examined factors that help microfinance achieve sustained poverty reduction based on a systematic literature review (SLR). A search was conducted on the SCOPUS database up to December 2023. After analyzing hundreds of documents, a subse...
This study was made to investigate the condensation local heat transfer and adiabatic pressure drop of R134a inside a 2.5 mm outside diameter smooth and microfin tube at low mass flux condition. Data were measured for mass fluxes from 50 to 300 kg m&...
A combination of two passive heat transfer enhancement techniques using a microfin structure and nanofluids was investigated numerically. TiO2/water nanofluids flowing inside a square minichannel with a microfin structure (SMM) were observed as a pra...
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are critical in promoting financial inclusion and socio-economic development, particularly in marginalized regions. The success and effectiveness of these institutions heavily rely on leadership and group management....
This review study examines flow boiling heat transfer in micro-fin tubes using mixed and pure refrigerants with zero ozone-depleting potential (ODP) and minimal global warming potential (GWP). This investigation focuses on the extraordinary relations...
The primary objective of microfinance institutions (MFIs) is to provide financial services to low-income clients and underprivileged women. As such, evaluating the efficiency of MFIs should take into account categorical output factors such as outreac...
Despite the MFI insurgency, agricultural financing remains critically low, even though microcredit is widely accepted as both a substitute and compliment to formal credit. Zimbabwe is an agro-based economy and very little is known about the determina...
Purpose. The purpose of this research is to propose a tool for designing a microcredit risk pricing strategy for borrowers of microfinance institutions (MFIs). Design/methodology/approach. Considering the specific characteristics of microcredit borro...
Purpose: the objective is to measure the financial and social performance of 127 microfinance institutions (MFIs) and observe the effects with explanatory factors such as “type”, “geography region”, and “secular and fait...
This study examines the role of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in advancing sustainable development by integrating environmental and social objectives into their operations. Using panel data from 30 MFIs across nine countries (2018–2023), the...
Superplasticizer (SP) is essential to enhance the groutability of microfine cement (MC) in civil engineering, however, combined effects of cement type, SP type, amount of SP and water-solid ratio (W/S) on engineering performance of MC are not clear c...
Microfin tubes are widely used to enhance heat transfer in heat exchangers in order to reduce volumes, costs and refrigerant charge. Much experimental work has been published for the flow of liquids, while some experimental work is available for the...
The objective of the study was to enhance our knowledge on institutional bottlenecks for financial development, financial inclusion, and microfinance, using Mauritania as a case study. We used a mixed-methods’ methodology that combines analysis of se...
In order to explore the influence of fine aggregate on the macro and micro properties of cold recycling mixture using emulsified asphalt (CRME), mechanical and microscopic property tests were carried out. The indirect tensile strength (ITS), unconfin...
This paper explores how credit risk management and human capital development sustain financial stability in microfinance institutions. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods allow this study to investigate credit risk management strategie...
This study examines the impact of microfinance on the social performance of local households in the Kassena Nankana East District of northern Ghana. The study’s primary objective was to measure the average effect of the common social performanc...
Capital structure plays an important role in organizational performance. Sources of funds for micro-finance institutions (MFIs) and their performance and financial sustainability become an important topic for the MFIs and poverty alleviation initiati...
This study examines the combined and individual effects of gross domestic product (GDP), microfinance loan disbursement, per capita power consumption, and total energy consumption on poverty rate in Bangladesh by using annual time series data over th...
The air conditioning and refrigeration industry is now dealing with an imminent substitution of widely implemented refrigerants having a non-negligible global warming impact. Among the proposed hydrofluoroolefins, R1234ze(E) has thermodynamic and tra...
The research aims to describe the micro-machining characteristics in a high-speed magnetic abrasive finishing, which is applicable for achieving the high surface accuracy and dimensional accuracy of fine ceramic bars that are typically characterized...
Since their inception in the 1970s, microfinance institutions (MFIs) have received increasing attention both from policymakers and academic circles. Using unbalanced panel data (2000–2017) from Ethiopia, in this paper, we investigated the perfo...
Empowering women is essential for poverty alleviation and open involvement of woman entrepreneurs in line for entrepreneurship development. Nonetheless, several woman-led enterprises and woman entrepreneurs have scarce opportunities to revitalize bey...
Microfinance institutions are social enterprises that focus on the provision of financial services to poor populations excluded from the conventional banking system. These organizations face a double-bottom line, dealing simultaneously with a financi...
In this study, we explore whether microfinance institutions (MFIs) can mitigate the adverse macroeconomic consequences of natural disasters. The provision of capital immediately following a natural event is recognized as one of the necessary conditio...
In microfinance, with more loans, there is a high risk of increasing overdue loans by overloading the resources available to take actions on the repayment. So, three experiments were conducted to search for a distribution of the loans through the off...
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