This study examines the nexus between credit expansion and the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions … (MFIs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The study also examines the interaction effects of credit expansion and interest rate …-corrected standard errors to analyze the data. The results establish that credit expansion matters in MFI financial sustainability …

Using data from the 1977 Consumer Credit Survey and from the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances, we investigate changes … in the percentage of households with deposit accounts. We find that, among households earning $84,000 or less in 1991 … prices, the percentage of households with deposit accounts fell from 90.5 percent in 1977 to 86.5 percent in 1989. For …

bank entities. …