analyzes its relationship with household wealth. It is found that nongovernmental microfinance has expanded rapidly by serving …There has been a rising concern that microfinance is abandoning its mission to serve the poor. Based on a longitudinal …

This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily … quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector …. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become less risky and more closely correlated with the financial sector …

financial access among receiving households. This paper provides empirical evidence on this hypothesis from Mexico, a major … for urban households and are more important for microfinance institutions, than for traditional banks. …

financial access among receiving households. This paper provides empirical evidence on this hypothesis from Mexico, a main … and important for microfinance institutions, but not for traditional banks. …

is inappropriate in the urban context where a large percentage of microfinance organisations in the developing world … Metropolitan area of Mexico City. The paper provides an estimation of the impact of credit, employing different equivalence scales …

The Mexican microfinance industry is evolving. Members were previously non-profit informal institutions. Today many of … that seems to exist between the search for financial yields and the social objective that microfinance institutions pursue. …

is inappropriate in the urban context where a large percentage of microfinance organisations in the developing world … Metropolitan area of Mexico City. The paper provides an estimation of the impact of credit, employing different equivalence scales …