Recent evidence suggests only modest social and economic impacts of microfinance. Favorable cost-benefit ratios then … depend on low costs. This paper uses proprietary data on 1,335 microfinance institutions between 2005 and 2009, jointly … serving 80.1 million borrowers, to calculate the costs of microfinance and other elements of the microfinance business model …

This paper evaluates effectiveness of microfinance using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method applied to data … the original study and provide more nuanced evidence by comparing Microfinance Institution (MFI) borrowers to those … true microfinance impact. The results suggest that microfinance can make a modest difference for some households in several …

studies that used this approach, and summarizes a series of research studies presented at the October 2010 microfinance impact …

In the fall of 2008, the Moroccan microfinance sector underwent what in economics is referred to as a Minsky moment … portfolios of the country's four largest Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), and one in particular - Zakoura. This study picks up … meant to cover the full Moroccan microfinance sector, due to constraints of time and availability of data, its primary focus …

constrained. This paper analyses whether, and how, micro-finance supports a large public health subsidy program in the developing … cluster randomised controlled experiment of a sanitation micro-finance program that coincided with the launch of the SBM …