Microcredit and the Poorest of the Poor: Theory and Evidence from Bolivia

By Sergio Navajas, Mark Schreiner, R. Meyer, C. González-Vega, Jorge Rodríguez-Meza. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Urban Studies

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Hold Your Courses: Language Education, Language Choice, and Economic Development (2002, background): “have typically taken place in countries such as Malaysia (Auwal, 1996), Mali (Cerven & Ghazanfar, 1999), Guatemala (Kelly, 1996), and especially Bolivia (Navajas et al., 2000).”
What drives microfinance institution's financial sustainability (2010, background): “Navajas et al. (2000) emphasized that MFIs that are truly financial sustainable tend to target clients that are either slightly above and slightly below the poverty line, because they can benefit from economies of scale by extending their loans to marginally poor and non-poor clients.”
Microfinance Poverty Assessment Tool (2003, result): “If such data is accessible, the analyst may choose to undertake a similar household survey only for MFI clients, and to compare those results with the national benchmark (see, for example, Navajas et al. 2000).”
Commercializing Microfinance and Deepening Outreach? Empirical Evidence from Latin America (2005, background): “An analysis of five Bolivian MFIs carried out by Navajas et al. (2000) found that “the group lenders in Bolivia reached the poorest better than individual lenders.””
Track Record of Financial Institutions in Assisting the Poor in Asia (2009, neutral): “This trade-off arises because MFI transaction costs are high for obtaining information needed to determine the creditworthiness of poor clients (Navajas et al., 2000).”
An operational tool for evaluating poverty outreach of development policies and projects (2001, methodology): “This kind of comparison has been recently done by Navajas et al. (2000) in Bolivia.”
Social and financial efficiency of Islamic microfinance institutions:a Data Envelopment Analysis application (2015, background): “Outreach is defined as social value of MFI output in six aspects, i.e. depth, breadth, length, scope, worth of users, and cost to users (Navajas et al., 2000; Schreiner, 2002).”