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Microfinance Social Performance Indicators
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Mission Drift in Microfinance: The Influence of Institutional and Country Risk Indicators on the Trade-Off between the Financial and Social Performance of Microfinance Institutions $25.28 Investments in microfinance by institutional investors are growing. The investors benefit from a dual return investment opportunity by balancing financial and social returns. Yet, commercial microfinance institutions tend to focus on their financial performance. Reaching out to wealthier clients while crowding out poorer clients enhances their profitability – a phenomenon called mission drift. Pim… |
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The social performance of the microfinance industry: A Costa Rican study on the impact of a social performance indicator for microfinance $62.94 The microfinance industry is developing and expanding at a fast pace; the formal banking industry has discovered the potential of offering microfinance related products and services and private investors are getting more and more interested in this industry. In hand with this development goes the development of the industry being criticized for not being that socially responsible as it pretends … |