Do microfinance institutions reach the poorest?

Carla Henry, Lapenu, Cécile, Manohar Sharma () and Manfred Zeller

No 11, MP05 briefs from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: The question raised in the title is an important one to the microfinance sector, especially since the Microcredit Summit held in Washington, DC, in 1997. In order to gain more transparency on the depth of poverty outreach, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) supported research at IFPRI during 1999 and 2000 to design and test a simple, low-cost operational tool to measure the poverty level of MFI clients relative to nonclients. This policy brief informs about the results from recent case studies on the poverty outreach of four selected microfinance institutions. The case studies were conducted for four MFIs world-wide: MFI A (Central America), MFI B (East Africa), MFI C (Southern Africa), and MFI D (South Asia).

Keywords: Microenterprises Finance.; Finance Developing countries.; Financial institutions.; Finance Southern Africa.; Finance Central America.; Finance South Asia. Finance Africa; East. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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