Analyses the extent to which the performance of Peruvian microfinance institutions during the period 1998-2002 was …

-level insurance against disasters can improve FI management of these events. We model microfinance intermediaries [MFIs] exposed to … severe El Niño in Peru that can now insure against this disaster risk. Our analyses suggest that insurance allows these …. Based on these analyses, a large MFI in Peru with which we collaborated is now managing its disaster risk using El Niño …

Group Dynamics have been largely neglected when the impacts of microfinance on poverty reduction are assessed. This … the individuals participating in microfinance schemes, their households, enterprises and communities are assessed. Four … the way we look at the effectiveness of microfinance today. …

comprehensive analytical framework for assessing the success of microfinance in achieving its dual objective of financial … and imperfect information, the paper argues that microfinance has not only not solved the original problems of information …

This paper studies the 'wholesale' market through which microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Peru, Tanzania and the … interests of diverse types of lenders. The analysis, with data on 120 microfinance organisations over the period 2006 …

The rise of commercialization in microfinance we have witnessed in the last two decades has revived the debate about … the trade-off between the sustainability and depth of outreach of the Microfinance Organizations (MFOs). We find evidence …

The global financial crisis affected microfinance institutions (MFIs) as lending growth was constrained by scarcer …