Microfinance and public policy
Subtitle: outreach, performance and efficiency
By: edited by Bernd Balkenhol.
Contributors: Balkenhol, Bernd.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Microfinance; Microfinance -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Poverty -- Developing countries -- Case studies; Small business -- Developing countries -- Finance -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Efficiency and sustainability in microfinance / Bernd Balkenhol; title: Promise and achievements; title: Efficiency in the microfinance literature; title: Efficiency: The concept; title: Applicability of efficiency concepts in microfinance; title: Efficiency versus financial Sustainability; title: Structure of the book; title: Conceptual framework; title: Poverty versus inequality / Amadou Diop, Isabelle Hillenkamp, Jean Michel Servet; title: Introduction; title: Defining and measuring poverty; title: How microfinance can help reduce poverty; title: Poverty reduction and financial performance; title: Can microfinance reach the poor?; title: The harmful side effects: Increased disparities; title: Poverty reduction through microfinance: a capability perspective / Flavio Comim; title: Introduction; title: Who are the poor? What are the issues?; title: Positive mechanisms; title: Negative mechanisms; title: A capability perspective; title: Achieving poverty outreach, impact and sustainability: managing trade-offs in microfinance / Anton Simanowitz; title: Introduction: Combining social and financial objectives; title: Trade-offs; title: Managing trade-offs; title: Conclusions; title: Smart subsidies / Jonathan Morduch; title: Introduction   Subsidies and microfinance; title: Valuing subsidies; title: "Crowding in" and "crowding out"; title: Conclusions; title: Empirical analysis; title: Efficiency in microfinance institutions: an application of data envelopment analysis to MFIs in Peru / Yves Flickiger, Anatoli Vassiliev; title: Introduction; title: Previous research on MFIs' performance evaluation; title: Performance analysis methodology; title: Data sources and variable construction; title: Efficiency analysis with the DEA model; title: Conclusions; title: Efficiency in financial intermediation: theory and empirical measurement / Thorsten Beck; title: Introduction; title: Interest spreads and credit rationing: theory; title: Interest spreads and credit rationing: cross-country evidence; title: Decomposing spreads; title: Explaining spreads; title: Conclusions and policy lessons; title: Efficiency drivers and constraints: Empirical findings / Yousra Hamed; title: Introduction; title: Methodology; title: The data; title: MFI clusters; title: Performance drivers and constraints; title: Conclusions; title: Measuring the performance of MFIs: an application of factor analysis / Giovanni Ferro Luzzii and Sylvain Weber; title: Introduction; title: The data; title: Factor analysis: theory and practice; title: Cluster analysis; title: Assessing what determines performance; title: Conclusions; title: Selected country studies; title: Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Mali / Renata Serra, Fabrizio Botti, and Milasoa Cherel-Robson; title: Introduction; title: Domestic contextual factors: institutions, state and markets; title: External factors: the implications of subsidy withdrawal; title: Conclusion; title: Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Morocco / Said Filali Meknassi; title: Introduction; title: Institutional context; title: Support by banks; title: Subsidies; title: Conclusion; title: Contextual factors  determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Central and Eastern Europe / Jusyna Pytkovwsa; title: Introduction; title: Access to resources; title: Financial performance; title: Social performance; title: Auctioning subsidies: Chile's "Access to Credit Program" / Vito Sciaraffia Merino; title: Introduction; title: Micro-enterprises in Chile; title: Has the PAC achieved its goals?; title: Conclusions; title: Policy implications / Bernd Balkenhol; title: Global donor support to microfinance; title: Weight of subsidies in microfinance; title: What prompts public policy support to MFIs?; title: General effects of public policy on efficiency in microfinance at the sectoral level; title: Support measures affecting the efficiency of individual MFIs; title: The way forward: how to support the best of class and the others; title: Annex I : GIAN survey; title: Annex II. Multivariate analysis and classification: social and financial performance; title: Annex III. Multivariate analysis and classification: social and financial performance and efficiency; title: Bibliography; title: Index.