Microfinance: Its Impact, Outreach, and Sustainability

Niels Hermes () and Robert Lensink

World Development, 2011, vol. 39, issue 6, 875-881

Abstract: Summary This symposium brings together recent empirical contributions with respect to a number of related and highly relevant issues on the economics of microfinance. In particular, the contributions provide answers to the following two main questions: (1) does microfinance have an impact on the social and economic situation of the poor in developing nations; and (2) are microfinance institutions sustainable in the long term and is there a trade-off between sustainability and outreach?

Keywords: microfinance; impact; outreach; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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