Econometric Analysis of Profitability of Microfinance Institutions in Selected Asian Countries

Janda, Karel and Turbat, Batbayar (2013): Econometric Analysis of Profitability of Microfinance Institutions in Selected Asian Countries.

Abstract

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of some of the microfinance lending methodologies using the approach comparing these institutions among themselves in terms of how different lending methodologies influence their performance indicators. The results of this study with respect to different tested hypotheses are somewhat mixed but the general outcome is that rural lending and targeting women borrowers seem to have accomplished the goal whereas the effectiveness of group lending, in contrast to the initial expectation, was not confirmed.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: microfinance, Asia, profitability
• Subjects: G - Financial Economics > G2 - Financial Institutions and Services > G21 - Banks ; Depository Institutions ; Micro Finance Institutions ; Mortgages; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O16 - Financial Markets ; Saving and Capital Investment ; Corporate Finance and Governance; P - Economic Systems > P3 - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions > P34 - Financial Economics

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