Sustainability and Poverty Outreach in Microfinance: the Sri Lankan Experience
Sustainability and Poverty Outreach in Microfinance: the Sri Lankan Experience

Author: H Amarathunga

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2019-08-19

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1532079303

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The fulfillment of the role of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in providing affordable financial services to the poor is associated with invariable challenges to MFIs, particularly in maintaining MFIs’ sustainability. The research work undertaken in this context to prepare author’s doctoral thesis has finally culminated in a book, which has comprehensively dealt with the subject of sustainability versus poverty outreach in microfinance. Overall, the results of panel data analysis confirm that there is no trade-off between sustainability and poverty outreach of MFIs. Thus, MFIs are in a position to achieve operational self-sufficiency while expanding services to the poor. Further, it is evident from logit analysis that group lending as against individual lending is strategically important for MFIs to achieve sustainability, successfully warding off the problems of asymmetric information prevailing in the rural credit markets. The book carries a detailed description on Sri Lanka’s financial sector and poverty aspects with special emphasis on microfinance sector which comprises of more than 15000 service providers under a variety of institutions with different mandates and business models. Policy discussion along with the findings of econometric analyses provides the reader with new insights especially in the absence of any other macro-level studies carried out to cover microfinance sector in Sri Lanka.

Microfinance Institutions
Microfinance Institutions

Author: R. Mersland

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-11

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 113739966X

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Research on MFI performance is still in its infancy. MFIs are hybrid organizations with dual objectives. Performance studies in microfinance are therefore less straightforward compared to performance studies in traditional banking research. This book contains new MFI performance research by top scholars from across the globe.

The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance
The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance

Author: Douglas Cumming

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 937

ISBN-13: 0195391241

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Provides a comprehensive picture of issues dealing with different sources of entrepreneurial finance and different issues with financing entrepreneurs. The Handbook comprises contributions from 48 authors based in 12 different countries.

The Triangle of Microfinance
The Triangle of Microfinance

Author: Manfred Zeller

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 080187226X

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Since the 1980s when the microfinance revolution began, much has been accomplished, but the field became more refined in the 1990s as a result of shifts in paradigms, strategies, and development practices. This volume addresses the three policy objectives that now occupy those who wish to use credit as a development tool: financial sustainability of microfinance institutions, outreach to the poor, and welfare impact. Inevitable tradeoffs exist among these objectives, and the book advances an analytical framework that assists students of and experts in microfinance to identify the tradeoffs and synergies at the institutional level and in the policy environment. The book features a wealth of empirical data and innovative analytical studies, and critically discusses the role of public support for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in light of the social costs and benefits generated by such financial systems. The book is organized into five parts. The first discusses the demand for and access to financial services by the poor, emphasizing that demand-oriented, pro-poor financial services are crucial in reaching the poor. The second is concerned with two of the criteria used to evaluate MFIs—outreach and financial sustainability. The third features innovative econometric studies seeking to evaluate the impact of MFIs at the household level. The fourth looks at the role of both public- and private-sector institutions in developing sustainable financial systems. And the fifth summarizes implications for policy and research. Given the lack of sound, empirical literature on microfinance, this volume is sure to advance knowledge and research methodology in the field.

Advanced Technologies for Microfinance: Solutions and Challenges
Advanced Technologies for Microfinance: Solutions and Challenges

Author: Ashta, Arvind

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2010-08-31

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1615209948

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Advanced Technologies for Microfinance: Solutions and Challenges is the first book to systematically address technology's impact on microfinance. It discusses a wide variety of technology applications that will define the next generation of the microfinance movement and it addresses the tough questions surrounding technology in microfinance. For instance, what are the disadvantages of technology-enabled microfinance and what will it mean for the inclusiveness and empowerment of the service? This dynamic collection is a must-have for anyone interested in microfinance, whether you are a donor, lender, or investor.

Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation
Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation

Author: Ben Quinones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1317762592

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Despite the considerable economic growth of the Asia-Pacific, poverty continues to be a major problem. One key way to create sustainable livelihoods and to provide poor households an escape route from poverty is microfinance. Since the early 1980s, microfinance practitioners have proven that the poor are creditworthy, capable of utilizing scarce capital efficiently in viable incom-generating projects and able to pay back their loans. This book collects the experience of microfinance practitioners in 11 countries in the Asia-Pacific region to describe the present state of the art. It is designed to provide an overview of the subject: why it is so essential to poverty reduction; what is the best practice; what kind of policy framework and regulatory environment is required. It offers both an extensive survey of the academic literature and a selection of case studies, all from authors who have been active practitioners in microfinance for many years. The case studies cover four key countries in South Asia and three countries in East Asia in which microfinance had become particularly important. There is also a regional chapter covering the Pacific islands.

The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable finance for the poor
The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable finance for the poor

Author: Marguerite S. Robinson

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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Microfinance is the method whereby financial services and credit is made available to the economically active but low income people of developiong countries. This book focusses on three key aspects of the phenomenon: 1) the shift from government- and donor-subsidized credit delivery systems to self-sufficient, sustainable microfinance institutions; 2) the results on the ground, on the way in which microfinance is helps people expand and diversify their enterprises, increase their incomes, raise their living standards and those of theri families, and boost their self-confidence; 3) the theroretical frameworks that had previously impeded the microfinance revolution, with suggestions for their improvement.

Microfinance Handbook
Microfinance Handbook

Author: Joanna Ledgerwood

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1998-12-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0821384317

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The purpose of the 'Microfinance Handbook' is to bring together in a single source guiding principles and tools that will promote sustainable microfinance and create viable institutions.