The economics of microfinance

By María Soledad Martínez Pería. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Soil Science

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Vive la Différence: Social Banks and Reciprocity in the Credit Market (2013, neutral): “It is based on the supply of standardized small loans without collateral (Armendariz and Morduch, 2010).”
Developing entrepreneurship in Africa: investigating critical resource challenges (2017, background): “Credit should be channelled for a specific purpose in the venture creation process, either as start-up capital or to ensure a positive outcome among African enterprises (Armendáriz de Aghion and Morduch, 2005; Carsamer, 2012; Annim and Alnaa, 2013; Ksoll et al., 2016).”
Microfinance and Gender Empowerment (2012, background): “While women may readily keep control over cash benefits transferred to them, by contrast, loans enter a complex decision-making process with perplexing impacts on the outcomes of the bargaining process.(4) In particular, there is congruent evidence that many women relinquish the use of their loans, ”
Where does microfinance flourish? Microfinance institution performance in macroeconomic context (2011, positive): “Understanding the macroeconomic impact on MFIs may also help a growing number of investment funds that target their dollars toward MFIs, sometimes with the dual goal of earning returns for investors and achieving social impact.(4) Since they value financial returns, these funds cannot afford to igno”
Financial Performance and Outreach: A Global Analysis of Leading Microbanks (2006, background): “Armendáriz de Aghion and Morduch (2005) provide a critical guide to the economics literature on microfinance, and Ahlin and Townsend (2007) test leading models with Thai data.”
High Noon for Microfinance Impact Evaluations: Re-investigating the Evidence from Bangladesh (2012, background): “…microfinance, it has recently been argued that there is little convincing evidence that microfinance programmes have positive impacts (Armendáriz de Aghion and Morduch, 2005, 2010; Goldberg, 2005; Roy, 2010; Bateman, 2010; Stewart et al., 2010; Duvendack et al., 2011) in part because the PnK…”
Friendship at Work: Can Peer Effects Catalyze Female Entrepreneurship? (WP-15-22) (2016, background): “…countries over the past few decades, financial institutions targeting the poor, such as micro-finance institutions, still face problems reaching sufficient numbers of borrowers to stay afloat, and the successful ones are having trouble scaling up operations ( Armendáriz and Morduch 2010 .”
Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India † (2013, background): “…front, observational studies of how greater repayment flexibility affects default report mixed findings (possibly reflecting selection bias): Armendariz and Morduch (2005) reports that more flexible repayment is associated with higher default in Bangladesh, while McIntosh (2008) finds that…”
Group versus Individual Liability: Long Term Evidence from Philippine Microcredit Lending Groups (2009, positive): “…microenterprises, informal economies, access to finance I. Introduction Group liability is often cited as a key innovation responsible for the expansion of access to credit for the poor in developing countries (Morduch 1999; Armendariz de Aghion and Morduch 2005; Microcredit Summit Campaign 2005).”