Conceptualizing a matrix to address sustainability and sustainable development in microfinance

• Main Author: Perez, Junette A.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Microfinance; Sustainable development; Business ethics; Business; Finance and Financial Management
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/13592
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper attempts to design a matrix that will merge sustainability and sustainable developments; its detinitions, approaches and its application to microfinance. The attempt to get a good grasp of sustainability and sustainable development are exciting as both concepts are subject to a wide range of conceptual breakthroughs more often bordering on defying limits. This paper aims to understand the definitions and approaches in sustainability and sustainable development and extract some sense into its possible application to microfinance. Several potential research issues are examined on three categories of sustainability, sustainable development and the effect of such concepts to microfinance. Several ideas come into surface once we delve into sustainability and sustainable development and microfinance. While it is crucial that one attempts to understand sustainability and sustainable development, one must be aware of the fact that they are an exception as they stand. sustainability can never be captured nor can sustainable development be fully armored with fixed rules and concept over time.