In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries …, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance … for microfinance and drive up costs. With costs well above revenues, U.S. programs are far from achieving financial self …

measured by the depth of outreach. In this context, our analysis reveals that a country's political stability, governance …Employing a Hausman-Taylor instrument variable (HT-IV) estimator to data from 558 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in … a country's external governance quality and outcome on local microbanks' economic success in terms of profitability and …

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 …

The microfinance sector has room for pure for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs), non-profit organizations, and … empirical results show that MFIs with a high depth of outreach are most efficient, resulting in higher levels of outreach and …

<Para ID="Par1">Few empirical studies have explored how microfinance institutions (MFIs) reach important social goals … such as outreach to the poor. While MFIs have the dual goals of pursuing both social and economic values, the impact of … their profitability on outreach can vary. Based on the institutional logics perspective, this study predicts that if MFIs …

After a summary of the main achievements in microfinance, the thesis provides an overview of microfinance institutions … (MFIs) in developing countries between 2000 and 2009. A thorough study of microfinance in sub-Saharan Africa is also … microfinance without regional specificities. The commercialization of the sector is called into question because although it does …

Notre étude se propose de mesurer l'efficacité des institutions de microfinance (IMFs) en UEMOA, en utilisant la … méthode DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). C'est la première étude qui considère à la fois la fonction d'intermédiaire et d'outreach … rencontrées par le secteur de la microfinance qui ont conduit à la fermeture de nombreuses institutions, ou à une détérioration …

dataset from a community-managed microfinance intervention in Northern Malawi, we find regressive outreach: Participants are …Reaching the poorest is an important objective in many development interventions, and microfinance is no exception. We …

Previous studies indicate that microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have different … goals of outreach and sustainability concurrently, we examine and compare the relationship between sustainability and … outreach of MFIs in LAC with MFIs in SA. Our results indicate that trade-offs exist between outreach and sustainability in both …

for the outreach and sustainability goals of Microfinance Institutions. We then evaluate whether outreach efficiency … between male and female CEOs in financial firms and in NGOs. We adapt the banking approach to managerial efficiency to account … have 12-14 point higher outreach efficiency suggesting that promoting gender diversity at the top is likely to have social …