Commercialization and mission drift : the transformation of microfinance in Latin America

By T. Cook, R. Christen. 2001

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Lending technologies, competition and consolidation in the market for microfinance in Bolivia (2003, background): “…of borrowers reached by Bolivian lenders exploded, as a number of diverse microfinance providers entered to supply the market (Baydas et al., 1997; Christen, 2001; Mosley, 1996; Poyo and Young, Copyright # 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. *Correspondence to: S. Navajas, USAID/Bolivia, PO Box 13369,…”
Outreach and performance of microfinance institutions: a panel analysis (2015, background): “…versus efficiency, Hashemi and Rosenberg (2006), and Montgomery andWeiss (2005) emphasize the importance of outreach as the primary mission of MFIs, while Christen (2001) and Isern and Porteous (2005) highlight the importance of efficiency and sustainability in ensuring long term viability of MFIs.”
On mission drift in microfinance institutions (2011, background): “This in turn 33 Christen (2000), however, point out that there is a huge difference across the very diverse Latin-American countries, some, like Nicaragua and Haiti, might be just as poor as some of their Asian counterparts. 34 Vanroose (2009) finds that a population density coefficient which is pos”