Examines the impacts of organizational governance on the outreach capabilities and sustainability of microfinance … institutions (MFIs) in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. Microfinance institutions are NGOs, banks … institutions have a double bottom line: outreach, defined as the ability to provide services to the poor, and sustainability …

, comprehensive picture of the current state of the microfinance industry in the region; 2) a comparison of the performance of the … for action for the region's various microfinance actors, the goal being to increase the scale, outreach to the poor … of the extent of poverty outreach by the region's MFIs. Sixth chapter assesses the MFIs' financial performance and the …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide a public good; if MFIs create and deepen markets where none existed before … analysis to show that MFIs form clusters in terms of social and financial performance. …

Promoting Microfinance brings together essays and empirical work by leading researchers and practitioners in the field … of microfinance. It covers key issues currently facing the microfinance industry and provides an overview of the … microfinance industry in selected countries/regions, pointing to the direction in which it is heading. …

.3 How microfinance can help reduce poverty -- 2.4 Poverty reduction and financial performance -- 2.5 Can microfinance reach … Microfinance -- 1.1 Promise and achievements -- 1.2 Efficiency in the microfinance literature -- 1.3 Efficiency: the concept -- 1 ….4 Applicability of efficiency concepts in microfinance -- 1.5 Efficiency versus financial sustainability -- 1.6 Structure of the book …