We suggest an explanation for the existence of "mission drift", the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to …

addition to rural and community banks and microfinance institutions. Using recent household survey data, we ascertain the … poverty reduction, in Ghana. By accounting for the potential endogeneity of access to financial services, we show that rural … hunger or extreme poverty, the poor must be allowed to obtain meaningful access to financial services through the design of …

This report presents ACCION's analysis and findings regarding the poverty profiles of microfinance clients at Mibanco …, Peru. In this first institutional analysis in ACCION's Poverty Outreach project, the authors analyze client income data to … compare borrower poverty levels with urban, national and international poverty lines. The study also compares demographic and …

This paper investigates whether financial development is conducive in poverty reduction. Separating financial … physical access is beneficial in reducing the proportion of people below the poverty line. Using alternative measures of … financial instability, the results also challenge existing findings that it may increase the incidence of poverty. In addition …

change in poverty score. -- micro-finance ; Grameen ; poverty ; quantile regression …This paper aims to evaluate the impact of a microlending program on ameliorating measured poverty within its client … population, with the aim of improving that impact. We analyze over 18,000 women micro-finance clients of the Negros Women for …

far surpassed the research capacity to analyze them, so excitement about the use of micro-finance for poverty alleviation …The micro-finance revolution has changed attitudes towards helping the poor in many countries and in some has provided … outreach and poverty impact of such schemes. However, amongst the academic development community there is a recognition that …

impact of microfinance activities on poverty reduction. In particular we ask what is the evidence on three specific issues …:– the extent to which microfinance initiatives have made a lasting difference in pulling households out of poverty on a … organizations and countries and in turn a vast number studies have attempted to assess the outreach and poverty impact of such …

extracted from the author's book “Poverty Traps and Microfinance: From Financial Inclusion to Sustainable Development,” Ibidem …A poverty trap is concerned with many possible different self-reinforcing mechanisms which cause misery to persist in a … vicious circle.Microfinance is a successful financial innovation to help the poor to sort out credit exclusion, which is one …