Women and Repayment in Microfinance: A Global Analysis

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Re-imagining Algorithmic Fairness in India and Beyond (2021, background): “models imagined middle-class men as end-users—even with many microfinance studies showing that women have high loan repayment rates [69, 198].”
Unsubsidized Microfinance Institutions (2013, background): “A higher percentage of female clients is also related to lower portfolio risk (D’Espallier et al., 2011).”
Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy and Economically Vulnerable Populations in the Middle East and North Africa (2019, unknown): “…as sociocultural norms still result in economic disparities that prevent vulnerable populations from accessing important financial resources such as property and credit (Coury and Rashid 2015; D’Espallier, Guérin, and Mersland 2011; Demirgüç-Kunt, Klapper, and Singer 2013; Elder and Kring 2016).”
Female leadership, performance, and governance in microfinance institutions. (2014, background): “(2006), and Francoeur et al. (2008) find that performance is enhanced with a female CEO, but reduced with female directors.”
Gender and Sustainability (2014, background): “This is especially the case with microfinance, which in recent years has targeted primarily women and women’s groups for receipt of loans, partly because of higher repayment rates among women (158, 159).”