Poverty

La réglementation a-t-elle un impact sur les performances de la microfinance? Le cas du Cameroun

Jean Pierre Fouda Owoundi
African Review of Money Finance and Banking 2010, pp. 29-58

Microfinance regulation is currently a highly debated topic in view of the increasing interest on the issue by the international community. In this paper we investigate its impact on performance of microfinance institutions using OLS regressions [...]

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Is there a difference in poverty outreach by type of microfinance institution? Country studies from Asia and Latin America

Manfred Zeller and Julia Johannsen
Savings and Development Vol. 32(2008), No. 3, pp. 227-269

Microfinance is often seen as an effective tool to reach the poor, yet there is a paucity of studies on the poverty level of microfinance clients, differentiated by type of microfinance institution. This paper seeks to make a contribution in closing [...]

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