This study aims to assess the microfinance institutions’ (MFIs’) efficiency in the West African Economic and Monetary … outreach. For this purpose, we use a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to measure the social efficiency on the one hand and the … financial efficiency on the other hand. Our results show that sustainability prevails. Indeed, we observe an increase in …

for the outreach and sustainability goals of Microfinance Institutions. We then evaluate whether outreach efficiency … have 12-14 point higher outreach efficiency suggesting that promoting gender diversity at the top is likely to have social … between male and female CEOs in financial firms and in NGOs. We adapt the banking approach to managerial efficiency to account …

The microfinance sector has room for pure for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs), non-profit organizations, and … approach that accommodates a wide range of business models and allows us to estimate the operational efficiency of MFIs. Our … empirical results show that MFIs with a high depth of outreach are most efficient, resulting in higher levels of outreach and …

In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries …, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance …, compared to the Third World, the structure of the U.S. economy makes the hurdles to starting small-businesses much higher in …

After a summary of the main achievements in microfinance, the thesis provides an overview of microfinance institutions … (MFIs) in developing countries between 2000 and 2009. A thorough study of microfinance in sub-Saharan Africa is also … microfinance without regional specificities. The commercialization of the sector is called into question because although it does …

goals of outreach and sustainability concurrently, we examine and compare the relationship between sustainability and … outreach of MFIs in LAC with MFIs in SA. Our results indicate that trade-offs exist between outreach and sustainability in both …Previous studies indicate that microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have different …

Employing a Hausman-Taylor instrument variable (HT-IV) estimator to data from 558 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in … sustainability. Evidence as well suggests a negative relationship between external governance and the microbanks' social success … measured by the depth of outreach. In this context, our analysis reveals that a country's political stability, governance …

. Die Effizienz zahlreicher Agrarunternehmen Sachsen-Anhalts wurde darüber hinaus durch den verstärkten Bodenkauf negativ …The main focus of this Discussion Paper the analysis of the efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Sachsen … efficiency measurement the technical, pure technical and scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises on verge of the eastern …

Spezialisierung auf die Effizienz untersucht. Um die Auswirkungen der Reformen und die Veränderungen in den Agrarunternehmen zu … der durchschnittlichen Effizienz im Vergleich von 1993 zu 2000. Bei der Betrachtung der Einflussfaktoren auf die … technische Effizienz hat die Wahl der Rechtsform keinen Einfluss. Hingegen beeinflussen Betriebsgröße und Spezialisierung die …