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 …

. However, the spread of consumer microcredit and uncontrolled growth of microfinance led to over-lending without adequate …Microfinance is the provision of financial services to the financially excluded, usually the poor. We use literature … microenterprise. The first thrust in this field had been from microcredit and group lending to encourage business initiatives among …

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 …