Promoting Microfinance: Challenges and Innovations in Developing Countries and Countries in Transition

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Challenges and Innovations in Promoting Microfinance....Pages 3-16
The Implications of a Growing Microfinance Market in Latin America and the Caribbean....Pages 17-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
The Microfinance Sectors in Peru and Mexico: Why Have They Followed Different Paths?....Pages 39-55
A Push towards Revitalizing Rural Financial Institutions: Lessons from Mexico’s PATMIR Project....Pages 56-76
Regulation and Performance of Ghana’s Multi-tiered Rural and Microfinance Industry....Pages 77-100
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Micro-credit Access and Household Welfare in Rural Cameroon....Pages 103-131
A Cost Function Approach to MFI Efficiency: The Role of Subsidy and Social Output Measures....Pages 132-147
Social and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions: A Multi-stage Data Envelopment Analysis Application....Pages 148-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Designing Apex Organizations in Conflict-affected Environments: An Analysis of Recent Experiences in Bosnia-Hezegovina and in Afghanistan....Pages 173-196
Are Microfinance Institutions and Their Customers Reactive to Disaster Risk? Main Topics and Four Case Studies....Pages 197-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-237