This book presents the findings of a five-year action research programme into how far poverty-oriented microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Africa, Asia, and Latin America are contributing to global poverty reduction, and how they can do so more effectively. Martin Greeley reviews evidence on...

Monitoring social performance is most useful when it reveals variation in both outreach and impact over time and between clients. Data from a village banking programme is used to compare two methods for assessing each. On poverty outreach, the authors favour monitoring of proxy indicators for...