This study aims to assess the microfinance institutions’ (MFIs’) efficiency in the West African Economic and Monetary … outreach. For this purpose, we use a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the social efficiency on the one hand and the … financial efficiency at the expense of social and financial efficiency. MFIs that stress outreach tend to be less efficient …

microfinance models of lending offer considerably lower costs of borrowing than those in regular models of direct lending by banks …. The study opines that microfinance model of lending can provide cost-efficient model of financial intermediation for …

2007 depended on three broad sources: domestic resources, governance, and global links. The results reveal that investment …, all three global links have a negative effect on performance. Also, two indicators of institutional quality (governance …

This paper sheds the light on the potential and constraints of possible interactions between Microfinance Investment … Vehicles (MIVs) and the two main African Microfinance models namely the cooperative model, well developed in West Africa, and … given the significant funding needs of Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in that part of the world, in particular with …

I estimate and compare the effects of globalization, governance, and conventional factors and forces on the economic …

cooperatives in Senegal. More specifically it strives to measure first how the social and financial performance and the governance … ADA, the ECHOS© tool of social performance assessment of Incofin, version 2012, the aggregated index of governance grid …, and specific interview grids to each MFIs based on their financial and social performance recorded and on their governance …

The study argues for the integration of good governance principles in developing financially viable, effective and …), and non-government organizations (NGOs); officers and members of cooperatives and people’s organizations (POs); religious … outcomes. On the whole, the application of good governance will improve program design and will make the implementation …

This paper attempts to investigate the determinants of productivity in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in India using … characteristics, outreach, and efficiency. We find convincing evidence that institutional characteristics and outreach have both ….77%, respectively. Of the outreach variables, numbers of active borrowers positively influence productivity by 0.04%, whereas, average …

. NGOs have played a considerably important role in the development of countries and 60% developing countries obtain their … aid through NGOs. In Balochistan the NGOs have been actively engaged in regional, local, national and international … matters with government and business since their beginning. Therefore, over time the NGOs are often said to have shifted the …

sovereignty. While acknowledging and encouraging the work of genuinely good NGOs for human development in Bangladesh, we must also … reject the manipulative use of big NGOs to sabotage the authority of a people’s government in Bangladesh led by patriotic … popular pro-liberation forces. On the positive side, we must emphasize the building of governance institutions according to …