On mission drift in microfinance institutions

By Beatriz Armendáriz, A. Szafarz. 2011

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Vive la Différence: Social Banks and Reciprocity in the Credit Market (2013, unknown): “Moreover, as observed in the microfinance industry, growth is sometimes associated with mission drift (Armendariz and Szafarz 2011).”
The institutional context of poverty: State fragility as a predictor of cross‐national variation in commercial microfinance lending (2014, background): “…the poorest and most disenfranchised clients is too costly to justify commercial investment; the non-profit approach should thus remain the industry’s preferred model (Yunus, 2007; INAFI, 2006; for a discussion of this issue in microfinance, see also Armendariz and Szafarz, 2011; Morduch, 2000).”
Do microfinance institutions accomplish their mission? Evidence from the relationship between traditional financial sector development and microfinance institutions’ outreach and performance (2013, background): “Also, Armendáriz and Szafarz (2009) argue that overall financial sector development is an important factor to take into account when evaluating which MFIs are actually serving.”
Unsubsidized Microfinance Institutions (2013, background): “Shifting priorities from social to financial performances is commonly labeled ‘‘mission drift’’ (Ghosh and Van Tassel, 2008; Mersland and Strøm, 2010; Armendáriz and Szafarz, 2011).”
Microfinance, the long tail and mission drift (2014, background): “The mission drift topic has been studied by Copestake (2007), Cull et al (2007), Mersland and Strøm (2010), Armendáriz and Szafarz (2011) and Hermes et al (2011).”