The microfinance revolution: sustainable finance for the poor.

By Marguerite Robinson. 2001

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Islamic Banking Sustainability: A Review of Literature and Directions for Future Research (2016, background): “Sustainability broadly has bi-directional (i.e., the institutional and welfarist) perspectives in banking and finance (Bhanot and Bapat 2015; Hermes, Lensink, and Meesters 2011; McIntosh and Wydick 2005; Mia and Chandran 2016; Nurmakhanova, Kretzschmar, and Fedhila 2015; Robinson 2001).”
Observing unobservables: Identifying information asymmetries with a consumer credit field experiment (2005, neutral): “Male private equity investors are more likely trade excessively and consequently earn lower returns (Barber and Odean 2001).”
Determinants of Financial Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions in East Africa (2013, background): “Robinson (2001) defined microfinance as small scale financial services – primarily credit and saving provided to people who farm or fish or herd; who operate small enterprises or micro enterprises where goods are produced, recycled, repaired, or sold, who provide services, who work for wages or…”
Impact of Access to Credit on Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Smallholder Cassava Farmers in Nigeria (2015, background): “Additionally, access to credit is also considered to be an important tool for smoothing consumption and promoting production especially for poor households (e.g. Swain et al., 2008; Conning and Udry, 2005; Armendariz and Morduch, 2005; Robinson, 2001; Zeller et al., 1997).”
The Unbanked (2008, neutral): “…impacts on the poor than access to finance stress the second and third groups among the unbanked (those deemed not creditworthy or those not interested in being in debt), arguing that the net impacts of microfinance are apt to be smaller than advocates assert (Robinson 2001; Hulme and Mosley 1996).”
Commitments to save: a field experiment in rural Malawi (2011, background): “As a result, many donors and academics (for example, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Robinson, 2001) have emphasized the need for research on the potential beneficial impacts of formal savings.2 Indeed, low-income individuals have a hard time saving formally, although they do engage in more…”
In credit we trust: Building social capital by Grameen Bank in Bangladesh (2006, background): “Microfinance has been quite successful in reducing vulnerability and poverty in Bangladesh (Khandker, 1998) and elsewhere ( Robinson, 2001 ).”
Performance and governance in microfinance institutions (2009, background): “Nevertheless, microfinance still reaches only a fraction of the world’s poor (Robinson, 2001; Christen et al., 2004).”
Financial Efficiency and Social Impact of Microfinance Institutions Using Self-Organizing Maps (2013, background): “Their goal was to reach the “poorest-of-the-poor” (Robinson, 2001) as microcredit programs have their roots in humanitarian and developmental plans.”
Is Microfinance a ‘Magic Bullet’ for Women’s Empowerment? Analysis of Findings from South Asia (2005, background): “However, findings from both Imp-Act and other studies challenge the apparent corollary implication drawn by Hulme and Mosley as well as Robinson (2001) that the extreme poor will not benefit from access to financial services.”
Banking for the poor: the role of Islamic banking in microfinance initiatives (2008, background): “These barriers are more apparent in developing countries whereby over 90% of households living in the rural areas are without access to institutional sources of finance ( Robinson, 2001 ).”
THE EMPIRICS OF MICROFINANCE: WHAT DO WE KNOW? (2007, neutral): “In the 1990s, the importance of financial sustainability of microfinance institutions gave rise to an important debate between the financial systems approach and the poverty lending approach ( Robinson, 2001 ).”
Efficiency of microfinance institutions in Sri Lanka: a two-stage double bootstrap DEA approach (2015, background): “However, not all the experiences are equally successful and there is increasing concern that many microfinance programs across the world are heavily dependent on subsidies (Quayes, 2012; Robinson, 2001).”