Commercializing Microfinance and Deepening Outreach? Empirical Evidence from Latin America

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Outreach and Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions (2011, methodology): “Olivares-Polanco (2005) investigates the determinants of outreach in terms of the loan size of MFIs, using data for 28 MFIs in Latin America for the years 1999-2001.”
Islamic Banking Sustainability: A Review of Literature and Directions for Future Research (2016, background): “As such, Olivares-Polanco (2005) found the age of the organizations and competition predicts their loan sizes rather than business models (profit and non-profit) and regulation.”
Competition and the performance of microfinance institutions (2013, unknown): “Olivares-Polanco (2005), using anecdotal and descriptive evidence from CGAP (2001), investigates the effect of competition in the microfinance business.”
Outreach and performance of microfinance institutions: a panel analysis (2015, background): “Olivares-Polanco (2005) and Makame and Murinde (2006) find evidence of a trade-off between outreach and sustainability, whereas Gonzales and Rosenberg (2006) find no evidence of such a tradeoff.”