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Institutional Lending Models, Mission Drift, And Microfinance Institutions, Bethany L. Paris
Institutional Lending Models, Mission Drift, And Microfinance Institutions, Bethany L. Paris
Theses and Dissertations--Public Policy and Administration
Microfinance is a development tool used to reduce poverty among extremely poor households. Impoverished households can access lines of credit through microfinance institutions (MFIs), in order to create a new business, smooth household consumption, fund medical emergencies, etc. Many authors postulate that MFIs are drifting from a welfarist to an institutionalist approach to lending.
Using MIXMarket data on specific MFIs in 118 countries between 1995 and 2011, the average loan balance of these organizations will be regressed against measure of outreach and sustainability of these institutions by charter type through a series of four, fixed effects models. The main research …