THE EMPIRICS OF MICROFINANCE: WHAT DO WE KNOW?

By N. Hermes, Robert Lensink. 2007

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

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Microfinance: Creating Opportunities for the Poor? (2010, background): “Numerous studies have tried to evaluate this claim, with mixed success (Hermes & Lensink, 2007).”
What drives microfinance institution's financial sustainability (2010, background): “4 This view is shared by Hermes and Lensink (2007), who contend that because of the high cost of providing microfinance products and services, most MFIs are not financially sustainable and are thus reliant on donor subsidies.”
Microfinance: its Impact, Outreach and Sustainability (2011, background): “The current symposium for World Development elaborates on the special issue in The Economic Journal (Hermes & Lensink, 2007) in a number of ways.”
On mission drift in microfinance institutions (2011, unknown): “For a comprehensive review on interest rates, see Hudon (2007). (16)The proxy for interest rates was obtained from MIX MFIs profile. It is stated as “financial revenue ratio”. This is roughly cash financial revenue divided by average gross portfolio, which is the proxy for average interest rate use ”
The Profit Orientation of Microfinance Institutions and Effective Interest Rates (2013, background): “Some commentators clearly place emphasis on the anti‐poverty orientation of MFIs: “the first goal of MFIs is to reach more clients in the poorer strata of the population, and the second goal is financial sustainability (Mersland & Strøm, 2008a, pg. 663).””
On the Efficiency Effects of Subsidies in Microfinance: An Empirical Inquiry (2011, background): “or Labie (2001), Hermes and Lensink (2007), Hulme and Mosley (1996).”
Systematic Review. What is the evidence of the impact of microfinance on the well-being of poor people? (2011, background): “In spite of that, Hermes and Lensink (2007) argued that MFIs are gradually abandoning the group liability scheme in favour of individual liability schemes; however, the literature on theorising individual liability schemes is surprisingly scant.”
Who cares about your Facebook friends? Credit scoring for microfinance (2015, background): “A second type of microfinance lending is group-based lending, in which social capital is created and used to alleviate the problem of asymmetric information and moral hazard [14].”