microfinance institutions’ borrower repayment rates. Using information on 947 MFIs over a 10-year period we find that private …

This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily … quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector …. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become less risky and more closely correlated with the financial sector …

The microfinance sector has room for pure for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs), non-profit organizations, and …

This paper describes a new index of the quality of the business environment for microfinance institutions (the Global … Microscope on the Microfinance Business Environment). Regressions are used to validate the index by linking it and its sub …-components to microfinance outcomes. The main findings are that the components of the index related to the supporting institutional …

This paper analyzes the impact of different microfinance providers on basic rights and quality of life. Data were … collected in two phases from 300 microfinance beneficiaries and 200 control respondents. Descriptive statistics, factor analysis …, multiple regression, propensity score matching, and treatment effect models were used for analysis. Microfinance appears to …

What accounts for the discrepancy between microfinance impact claims of development practitioners and the far smaller … practitioners overstate microfinance impacts and why estimations in some recent randomized trials understate the average treatment … microfinance in villages where microfinance did not previously exist. We find that approximately three-fourths of the apparent …

Has microfinance become crisis-prone like other sources of finance? This paper provides empirical evidence on credit … growth patterns of microfinance institutions in the early 2000s. Results suggest that microfinance has become vulnerable to …

Does microfinance support the empowerment of female borrowers? Results of studies analyzing microfinance and … empowerment delivered mixed results. In order to explore whether microfinance influences empowerment, the paper compares women in … higher loan cycles of a Pakistani microfinance institution with those in the first loan cycle regarding their empowerment …

Most of the customers of microfinance institutions are female. But do men and women benefit from the same credit … comprising 34,000 loan applications from a Brazilian microfinance institution. The model determines the optimal loan size fixed …