In the next ten years, advocates of microfinance organizations (MFOs) will seek more than $20 billion to provide small …-percent increase in the about $200 million spent per year on domestic microfinance. Most of the excitement for the promise of … microfinance in the United States has been sparked by reports of the success of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh. Was Grameen a good …

loans with characteristics similar to current loans--to inform decisions. Can credit scoring do the same for microfinance … lenders in poor countries? This paper argues that scoring does have a place in microfinance. Although scoring is less powerful …--current microfinance technologies. Furthermore, the derivation of the scoring formula reveals how the characteristics of borrowers, loans …

Can scoring models help microfinance lenders in poor countries as much as they have helped credit-card lenders in rich … microfinance depend on many factors difficult to include in statistical models, I find that inexpensive data does indeed have some … predictive power. In microfinance, computer models will not replace loan officers, but they can flag the highest risks and act as …

This paper presents a scoring model that predicts the risk of drop-out for borrowers at a microfinance lender in … suggest that scoring may help microfinance lenders to detect segments of their clientele (and even specific current clients …

This paper examines the development of microfinance market from the household perspective as it relates to poverty …