that increased competition in microfinance sector leads to a larger average loans and a decrease in the financial self-sustainability …In recent years growing competition in the microfinance industry has been censured for multiple borrowing, default … investigates the impact of competition on microfinance institutions' (MFIs) outreach, financial performance and quality of loan …

Microfinance has played a key role in including the poor in financial markets. This paper uses microfinance data to … development of microfinance markets. Our approach accounts for the dynamic and heterogeneous impacts that key drivers may have … causal relationships. Our key findings indicate that: i) Microfinance markets are more responsive to the needs of the bottom …

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 …