Microfinance and Gender: Is There a Glass Ceiling in Loan Size?

By Isabelle Agier, A. Szafarz. 2010

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Green Microfinance: Characteristics of Microfinance Institutions Involved in Environmental Management (2013, background): “Can environmental, social, and financial objectives be combined? Some microfinance institutions (MFIs), donors, and experts believe this is the case, since they have added a third bottom line for microfinance related to the environment (FMO 2008; GreenMicrofinance 2007; Rippey 2009; Schuite and Pate”
A multidisciplinary survey on discrimination analysis (2013, background): “Gender discrimination in loan amounts was also analyzed by Agier and Szafarz (2013) on a data set of 34000 loan applications to a single microfinance institution.”
Vive la Différence: Social Banks and Reciprocity in the Credit Market (2013, unknown): “It relies heavily on soft information, mainly collected by loan officers whose objectivity may be questioned (Agier and Szafarz 2013b).32 This new type of agency problem may compromise the fulfillment of the bank’s social mission.”
Unsubsidized Microfinance Institutions (2013, background): “On the one hand, women are known to repay loans more reliably than men (Agier and Szafarz, 2013), suggesting that fewer subsidies are needed to sustain this business.”