Social Investment in Microfinance: The Trade-Off Between Risk, Return and Outreach to the Poor

Rients Galema and Robert Lensink
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Rients Galema: University of Groningen, Netherlands

Chapter 17 in The Handbook of Microfinance, 2011, pp 367-381 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThe following sections are included:IntroductionDataThe Risk-Return-Outreach Trade-OffQuantifying the Risk-Return-Outreach Trade-OffConclusionReferencesAppendix: Methodology

Keywords: Microfinance; Poverty; Microcredit; Informal Markets; Microsavings; Microinsurance; Social Responsibility; Randomized Impact Evaluations; Ethics; Gender; South Asia; Latin America; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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