Financial inclusion, deepening and efficiency in microfinance programs: Evidence from Bangladesh

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41340/19:81450

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41287-018-0188-6" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41287-018-0188-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41287-018-0188-6" target="_blank" >10.1057/s41287-018-0188-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Financial inclusion, deepening and efficiency in microfinance programs: Evidence from Bangladesh

Original language description

The economic literature provides evidence that growth is associated with positive performance of the financial sector. This aspect is particularly important for developing countries. This study aims to investigate whether, in an environment of growing competition and regulation, the maintenance of their social mission may have led microfinance institutions to compromise their performance, in terms of efficient production of credit services. To this purpose, we use a twostage approach to analyze the relationship between outreach and efficiency of MFIs in Bangladesh. In the first stage, a dynamic data envelopment analysis is exploited to measure the efficiency of MFIs from 2009 to 2014. The results show that most of the MFIs are operationally inefficient over the period, suggesting a considerable potential for future improvement. In the second stage, the study examines the potential trade-off between MFIs commitment to financial inclusion and depth of outreach on the one hand and efficiency on the othe

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Development Research

ISSN

0957-8811

e-ISSN

1743-9728

Volume of the periodical

N

Issue of the periodical within the volume

N

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

1-27

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85058175055