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 …

for the outreach and sustainability goals of Microfinance Institutions. We then evaluate whether outreach efficiency …This article asks if women are better bankers to the poor, motivated by recent work showing differences in performance … have 12-14 point higher outreach efficiency suggesting that promoting gender diversity at the top is likely to have social …

dataset from a community-managed microfinance intervention in Northern Malawi, we find regressive outreach: Participants are …Reaching the poorest is an important objective in many development interventions, and microfinance is no exception. We … review performance indicators for effectiveness of targeting described in the literature and suggest a new metric in order to …

The microfinance sector has room for pure for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs), non-profit organizations, and … empirical results show that MFIs with a high depth of outreach are most efficient, resulting in higher levels of outreach and …

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 at the expense of social and financial efficiency. MFIs that stress outreach tend to be less efficient …

Poor people were excluded from financial services until microfinance institutions (MFIs) emerged. The mission of MFIs … microfinance and mission drift, tested with hypotheses. The results from the empirical study show a pattern of mission centered MFI …