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To profit or not to profit? Assessing financial sustainability outcomes of microfinance institutions
International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2019We used a multilevel approach on comparing for‐profit and not‐for‐profit microfinance institutions (MFIs). The database was composed of 202 MFIs (in 52 countries) from the most widely used microfinance dataset (the Microfnance Information eXchange, Inc ...
R. Leite +2 more
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Performance of Listed Microfinance Institutions
Strategic Change, 2017Investment in microfinance equity may improve portfolio diversification and attract socially responsible investors.
Daher, Lâma, Le Saout, Erwan
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Asian Journal of Accounting Research, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed some lights on the process of mission drifting or abandoning poverty objective by Islamic microfinance institutions (IMFs). The paper investigates whether the extensive use of banking logic changes IMFs, from
Luqyan Tamanni +1 more
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed some lights on the process of mission drifting or abandoning poverty objective by Islamic microfinance institutions (IMFs). The paper investigates whether the extensive use of banking logic changes IMFs, from
Luqyan Tamanni +1 more
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Financing Microfinance: Exploring the Funding Side of Microfinance Institutions
2003This paper aims to reveal some basic trends in the financing of microfinance institutions, such as where the financing comes from, and how the distribution changes over time. The paper does not claim to be a comprehensive review of this topic, but it offers some new information and points to some previously unexplored patterns.
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Buffer capital in microfinance institutions
Journal of Business Research, 2016The objective of the study is to examine the drivers of the buffer capital held by microfinance institutions, with particular emphasis on competition and its asset side effects, specifically loan portfolio quality and lending approaches. We also investigate whether competition and its asset side effects depend on whether the microfinance institution ...
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Alternative microfinance institutions and vulnerability
Development in Practice, 1999The author argues, using the example of microfinance institutions, that it is essential to build genuinely solid and alternative institutions if development is to take its direction from the poor and vulnerable. He sets out his view of the characteristics such institutions would have, and the vulnerabilities currently seen in microfinance institutions.
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Performance of Microfinance Institutions-A Macroeconomic and Institutional Perspective [PDF]
, 2011 Under the continued effects of global financial crisis where the donor's investment in microfinance sectors has become shrunk, how the macroeconomic factors or the crisis or the macro-institutional factors would affect the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) have become one of the key debates among the policy makers and practitioners.
Katsushi Imai +4 more
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Capital Structure of Microfinance Institutions
Journal of Financial Services Research, 2014This article seeks to answer two questions. What drives the capital structure of microfinance institutions? Does the effect of variables at the microfinance institution’s level vary depending on whether the institution is shareholder based or not? Results show that a reliance on external debt has a significant correlation with tangible assets, profit ...
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Energy innovation funding and institutions in major economies
Nature Energy, 2022Jonas O Meckling +2 more
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