Microfinance: its Impact, Outreach and Sustainability

By N. Hermes, Robert Lensink. 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Urban Studies

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IS MICROCREDIT A BLESSING FOR THE POOR? A META-ANALYSIS (2015, background): “Overall, the current lack of conclusive evidence in this body of literature (Hermes & Lensink, 2011; Khavul, Chavez, & Bruton, 2012) raises questions about the capacity of MC to improve the financial standing of enterprising individuals.”
Social and financial efficiency of Islamic microfinance institutions:a Data Envelopment Analysis application (2015, background): “Thus, this study cannot confirm Abdelkader et al. (2012) who asserted that young MFIs have higher efficiency in MENA region, whilst it partly support Hermes & Lensink (2011) in Islamic meta-frontier that financial sustainability is attained by mature MFIs, yet only when strategy that can be…”
Empowering Women Through Financial Inclusion: A Study of Urban Slum (2019, background): “Replication studies with extensions are important to break down the use of results on a wide scale (Hermes & Lensink, 2011) to identify generalization of relationships, for both with Indian population of slum dwellers and in context of financial inclusion.”
Access to Rural Credit Markets in Developing Countries, the Case of Vietnam: A Literature Review (2019, background): “Poverty alleviation does not come from the direct provision of credit to the poor [25], even in reality the poorest are likely to be excluded from the formal lenders because of their bigger risk than the other group of population [91,92].”
Empowering Women through Microfinance: Evidence from Tanzania (2013, background): “Their study provides a strong evidence for effectiveness of MFIs as recovery tool (Hermes & Lensink, 2011).”
Microfinance and economic development (2017, background): “…of microfinance institutions themselves, broader supervisory approaches within the financial sector, and competition from other providers of financial services, which all affect the development of 11 microfinance (see, for example, Ahlin et al. 2011, McIntosh and Wydick 2005, Hermes et al. 2011).”
Microfinance, the long tail and mission drift (2014, background): “Hermes and Lensink (2011) distinguish between the financial systems approach vs. the poverty lending approach.”
Financial Efficiency and Social Impact of Microfinance Institutions Using Self-Organizing Maps (2013, background): “Does emphasizing self-sustainability result in mission drift (Mersland & Strøm, 2010; Hermes & Lensink, 2011)?”
Islamic Banking Sustainability: A Review of Literature and Directions for Future Research (2016, background): “The institutional perspective centralized on the solvency of the institutions through financial and operational self-sufficiency (Ahmed 2013; Cull, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Morduch 2007; Hartarska and Nadolnyak 2007; Hermes and Lensink 2011; Marwa and Aziakpono 2015; McCormick 2011).”