and outreach performance as well as default and interest rates. Results suggest that high economic growth is associated … to impede MFI growth, especially outreach growth. Evidence also arises for the rivalry between MFI performance and better …Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) have been compared at various levels for the purpose of replications and policy …

This paper uses a panel data set of microfinance institutions (MFI) across the world to compare several identification … MFIs by including a measure of outreach lowers the estimated extent of economies of scale for the parametric estimations …, suggesting that producing outreach creates high transaction costs and requires exploitation of local knowledge. …

The present paper examines the impact of financial and social performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) on … Microfinance Information Exchange (Mix Market). Financial performance is captured through return on assets, return on equity, and … operational self-sufficiency, whereas social performance is measured through average loan size and number of credit clients. The …

This paper examines the structure and performance of the services sector in Eastern European and Central Asian …

This paper examines the performance of the service sector in the Eastern European transition economies during the 1997 …-2004 period. The performance of the service sector as a whole and of its sub-sectors is very heterogeneous within the region …