Women participation in achieving sustainability of microfinance institutions (MFIs)

Ainan Memon, Waqar Akram and Ghulam Abbas

Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 2022, vol. 12, issue 2, 593-611

Abstract: This paper identifies the impact of different roles of female participation (i.e. female borrower, board member, manager, and loan officer) in achieving financial sustainability and outreach of MFIs. We used global panel data from 1999 to 2017 and employed panel-ordinary least square (OLS), fixed-effect model. Moreover, we employed Two-Stage Least Square (2SLS) to resolve the endogeneity problem. We found that female as a borrower, board member and manager has a significant favorable influence on outreach except for female loan officer. However, these have significant negative impact on financial sustainability except female manager. The estimates also indicate that female participation has more impact on outreach than financial sustainability. Our study have implications for devising target market strategy, recruitment, and leadership style strategy for the microfinance sector to achieve poverty reduction, gender equality, and women empowerment.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/20430795.2020.1790959

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