This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality … panel data methodologies, such as ordinary least square (OLS), pooled ordinary least square (POLS) and instrumental … microfinance in reducing inequality at the macro level. Moreover, our results suggest that microfinance loans can lead to improve …

This study argues that patterns, trends and drivers of the efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs) depend on the … scope of financial sustainability measures and on MFIs' inclination to either of the dual objectives of financial systems … and outreach. A balanced panel data of 164 MFIs for the period 2004-08 is extracted from the MIX website for the study …

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 …