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Microfinance is one of the channels to access financial services for the poor and low-income people, contributing to social security. Developing microfinance operations in the right direction will contribute positively to the improvement of people's lives and diversification of service supply in the financial market.The success of the MFIs depends on their goals, policies, operational management and many other factors. Another important condition is to find the factors that influence the operations and to understand the interactive relationships of the factors in microfinance operations, which will contribute to increasing the MFIs' operational performance.The compilation of the content of this book provides the overall contents of microfinance operations. The quantitative models in the microfinance operations are introduced to find out the factors affecting the operations and the interaction relationships of factors in the microfinance operations. The content of the book "The Interactive Relationships in Microfinance" associates the microfinance operations with the quantitative models, not going into proving the testing tools of econometrics but focusing on application the tools in analyzing the results of quantitative models. Each quantitative model used in microfinance research has important implications in many different angles. The quantitative models will provide theoretical and empirical foundations that contribute positively to research and practical applications for many readers, students and postgraduate students.