Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …

We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing … to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at …

We suggest an explanation for the existence of "mission drift", the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the … the limited comparability of outcomes and the heterogeneity of microfinance-lending technologies, together with a …

This paper uses household data to test whether microfinance institutions created by the Malawian government in the mid … widespread microfinance programme has a negative and significant effect on borrowing from informal sources, reducing on average … lending ; microfinance ; evaluation methods …

Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the financially excluded, usually the poor. We use literature …. However, the spread of consumer microcredit and uncontrolled growth of microfinance led to over-lending without adequate … been suggested. We place these developments in a social innovation process perspective by showing that microfinance …

The micro-finance revolution has changed attitudes towards helping the poor in many countries and in some has provided … far surpassed the research capacity to analyze them, so excitement about the use of micro-finance for poverty alleviation … to allocate confidently public resources to micro-finance development.” (Zeller and Meyer 2002).This is a very strong …