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Are microfinance institutions in South-East Asia pursuing objectives of greening the environment?

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  • Md Aslam Mia
  • Miao Zhang
  • Cheng Zhang
  • Yoomi Kim

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Microfinance institutions (MFIs) were initially established to alleviate extreme poverty by providing a wide array of customized financial products. However, today's MFIs’ roles have been diversified into providing not only basic financial products but also a great variety of non-financial products, such as incentives and assistance to promote environment-friendly practices in the developing countries. By using an unbalanced panel data of 274 MFIs in South-East Asia from 2000 to 2014, this study investigated MFIs’ contribution in greening the environment using the proxy of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the agriculture sector. The regression results show that the main proxy variables: number of borrowers, number of loans outstanding and average loan over gross national income per capita have a negative effect on GHG emissions, and thus, creating a positive impact on greening our environment.

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  • Md Aslam Mia & Miao Zhang & Cheng Zhang & Yoomi Kim, 2018. "Are microfinance institutions in South-East Asia pursuing objectives of greening the environment?," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(2), pages 229-245, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjapxx:v:23:y:2018:i:2:p:229-245
    DOI: 10.1080/13547860.2018.1442147
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    2. Mohammad Asif & Mohd Naved Khan & Sadhana Tiwari & Showkat K. Wani & Firoz Alam, 2023. "The Impact of Fintech and Digital Financial Services on Financial Inclusion in India," JRFM, MDPI, vol. 16(2), pages 1-12, February.
    3. Wei Xu & Hongyong Fu & Huanpeng Liu, 2019. "Evaluating the Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions Considering Macro-Environmental Factors: A Cross-Country Study," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(21), pages 1-22, October.
    4. Md. Ali Rasel & Sandar Win, 2020. "Microfinance governance: a systematic review and future research directions," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 47(7), pages 1811-1847, April.
    5. Ainan Memon & Waqar Akram & Ghulam Abbas & Abbas Ali Chandio & Sultan Adeel & Iram Yasmin, 2022. "Financial Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions and Macroeconomic Factors: A Case of South Asia," South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance, , vol. 11(1), pages 116-142, June.
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