This study aims to assess the microfinance institutions’ (MFIs’) efficiency in the West African Economic and Monetary … (where MFIs reach the population that the banks cannot), we ask whether these reforms have promoted sustainability or … financial efficiency on the other hand. Our results show that sustainability prevails. Indeed, we observe an increase in …

the trade-off between the sustainability and depth of outreach of the Microfinance Organizations (MFOs). We find evidence …The rise of commercialization in microfinance we have witnessed in the last two decades has revived the debate about … of such trade-off for the Peruvian MFOs (meaning that greater sustainability is attained at the expense of reducing the …

Since the Mexican Microfinance Institution (MFI) Compartamos went public in 2007 – whereby promoting NGOs and private … microfinance. They are mostly inspired by antagonists of MFIs growing into market driven enterprises. This antagonism has been … blended with contemplation about assumed “subprime issues” of microfinance. However, the sector showed a steady performance …

Abstract Through a panel model, we studied the characteristics of the inflation targeting policy for a group of 15 …

the most challenging goals for most developing economies. Using Panel Least Square with Regional Dummies (LSDV) for a …

The classical canonical correlation analysis is extremely greedy to maximize the squared correlation between two sets … the dataset-2, the canonical correlation will be very high irrespective of the correlation among the rest of the variables …-Constrained Canonical correlation (RCCCA) Analysis has the Classical Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCCA) at its one end (λ=0) and the …

measures of correlation. The versatility of the method and its capability to obtain the most representative composite rank … also been found that rank ordering based on maximization of the sum of absolute values of the correlation coefficients of … solves the one problem, it gives rise to the other problem. The overall ranking of objects by maximin correlation principle …

correlation of the composite index with the constituent indices. Such an index is inclusive in nature and gives proper …

, and the question arises how the recently proposed concept of nominal correlation and regression (NCR) relates to it. (1 … regressions, NRC may show that the correlation still is low. (5) Risk difference regression may be a bridge to understand more …