We evaluate the efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs) using a structural approach which also captures these …

customarily invoked to promote the transformation of credit-only microfinance institutions (MFIs) into integrated loans …-and-savings entities. To ensure robust inference, we estimate scope economies for the microfinance industry using a novel approach which … dataset. Unlike earlier studies, we do not find prevalent scope economies in the microfinance industry. We find that the …

years after microfinance–an intervention commonly believed to lower the cost of credit and spark business creation … “gung-ho entrepreneurs” (GEs)–those who started a business before microfinance entered–more access to microfinance. Notably …, these effects persist two years after microfinance was withdrawn from Hyderabad. However, any persistent benefits to …

This study examines the social collateral model for Islamic microfinance in Malaysia. Using qualitative instruments on … academics and officers of microfinance institutions as the sample study, this study identifies the components that should be … included in the social collateral model for Islamic microfinance. Based on interviews and focus group discussions, this study …

-adding technology, levered by microfinance, may then be sequentially added to the development paradigm. To the extent that technology … and microfinance can be suitably combined, they may lever scalable productivity, in a way similar to Metcalfe …