Credit scoring for microfinance: is it worth it?

By J. V. Gool, Wouter Verbeke, P. Sercu, Bart Baesens. 2012

112 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Citations in the corpus

• Who cares about your Facebook friends? Credit scoring for microfinance (2015, methodology): “Attempts to replace the credit screening process with automated credit scoring have shown that the use of traditional socio-demographic and credit data is insufficient [2, 3].”
• Supply‐Chain Research Opportunities with the Poor as Suppliers or Distributors in Developing Countries (2014, background): “Van Gool et al. (2012) find that traditional credit scoring adopted by retail banks is not yet ready to replace the human-intensive screening process conducted by MFIs.”
• Classification methods applied to credit scoring: A systematic review and overall comparison (2016, background): “Other literature reviews were performed by Hand and Henley (1997); Gemela (2001); Xu et al. (2009); Shi (2010); Lahsasna et al. (2010a); Van Gool et al. (2012).”