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Allotey, Daniel. "Commercializing a microfinance institution to maximize profit : (A study of the Sinapi Aba Microfinance Institution-Ghana)." Thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Sustainable Development of Society and Technology, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-4264.
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Date: 2008-06-23
Level: Bachelor Thesis in Business Administration, Basic Level 300, 15 ECTS-Points
Author: Daniel Allotey
Tutor: Per Nordqvist
Title: Commercializing a microfinance institution to maximize profit
(A study of the Sinapi Aba Microfinance Institution-Ghana)
Background: Microfinance is one major approach to offering financial services to the majority, (mainly poor people) in developing countries. Traditionally, most of these institutions largely operate based on support by international donor agencies. Research into this field has shown that a microfinance institution has the ability to maximize profits by commercializing its services.
Problem: The research problem is to find out how the Sinapi Aba Microfinance Institution, (Ghana) can maximize profits as a result of commercialization of operations.
Purpose: The main purpose of this research is to illustrate to the Sinapi Aba Microfinance Institution how it could maximize profits through the commercialization of its operations.
Method: The research is a study that uses the qualitative approach. Relevant information for the theoretical background and the Sinapi Aba has been organized through primary and secondary data search. The primary data is based on a telephone interview with Mr.Opata Narh, managing director at Sinapi Aba Microfinance Institution in Oda, and a questionnaire sent through an attached e-mail to Mrs. Georgina Ocansey, the human resource manager to solicit her opinion on the same subject. Information’s were also gathered from the institutions home page. The secondary data was sourced from books and articles from the Mälardalen University library and internet sources within this field of study.
Conclusion: In an effort to illustrate to the Sinapi Aba Microfinance Institution how it could be self sufficient through profit maximization, the author was able to base his argument on the theories used in the frame of reference in connection with the findings obtained from the telephone interview, questionnaire and the institutions home page. This also helped the author establish the fact that the Sinapi Aba Microfinance Institution can maximize profit through the commercialization of its services. Profit maximization could therefore be achieved by developing its human resources, mobilizing savings, supervision and regulative mechanisms and finally marketing and competitive positioning.
Acclassato, Houensou Denis. "Réglementation et performances des institutions de microfinance dans l'UEMOA : analyse des expériences au Bénin." Thesis, Orléans, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009ORLE0511.
Full textIn West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), microfinance institutions (MFIs)are regulated by specific laws but many of them operate outside the regulatory framework.Regulation has advantages but also costs for regulated institutions and the anticipation ofgains or costs may strengthen or limit their incentives for regulation. We analyze MFIsreactions to the implementation of that regulation. In other way, we investigate the linkbetween regulation and performance by using empirical data to estimate the incentives forregulation. We find, it is possible to substitute the prudential regulation for market disciplinein the microfinance intermediation because the net benefit is positive. In spite of their socialvocation, some MFIs prefer ensuring financial performance. Our findings also suggest thatincreasing governance's effort improves MFIs financial income
Boudedja, Karima. "Microfinance et ONG : bilan et analyse diagnostic du fonctionnement du dispositif de microcrédit à l'ONG algérienne Touiza en vue de la création d'une institution de microfinance /." Montpellier : CIHEAM-IAM Montpellier, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41305152v.
Full textCIHEAM = Centre international des hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes. IAM = Institut agronomique méditerranéen de Montpellier. Bibliogr., webliogr. p. 160-163. Résumé en français et en anglais.
ABEI, YOLANDA AJI. "Impact of Internal Control on Fraud Detection and Prevention in Microfinance Institutions." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-85431.
Full textPeter, Simon. "L'institutionnalisation du marché de la microfinance : le cas du Gabon." Thesis, Pau, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PAUU2009/document.
Full textWith the direction taken in 2002 by the Banking Commission of Central Africa (COBAC) to develop microfinance activities, the business of microfinance has turned in its organizational form (moving from informal to formal), but also its relationship to its environment. Our field observation shows that this perspective is largely determined by the cooperation between the very small enterprises (VSE) and microfinance institutions (MFIs) whose management practices are put to the test of regulations. As such, the regulation affects the behavior of actors and thus should contribute to market development and the sustainability of MFIs and VSE through their cooperation. Compared to the above, what lessons can be learned from the Gabonese experience to generate a better understanding of the problem of the impact of regulation on the market of microfinance? We show that in an institutionalized environment, EMF have two options: a financial attitude and a social attitude. We show that many small businesses, with projects, are unable to benefit from the offer of the microfinance market. This paradox then leads us to question the different behaviors that the regulation of the microfinance market translated and induced. We induce that these behaviors as well as their interaction affect the internal organization of tasks (coordination) of the actors, that is to say on how EMF and VSE are managed, as well as the cooperation between EMF and VSE. This work opens up new areas of understanding of the microfinance market in Gabon
Kaluge, David, and n/a. "Microfinance and poverty in Indonesia: an analysis of the role of KUKESRA and MKEJ." University of Canberra. Economics and Marketing, 2001. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050509.093311.
Full textMichell-Auli, Peter. "Finance for the poor: community banking as an approach to institution building : the example of the Nigerian community banks : a theoretical and empirical analysis /." Aachen : Shaker, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb390681571.
Full textAhmed, Juber. "Client Information Needs of MFIs : A Case Study of ASA Bangladesh." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för management, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1117.
Full textMbaye, Khady. "Analyse de la transformation institutionnelle des organisations de microfinance en milieu rural au Sénégal." Thesis, Montpellier, SupAgro, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010NSAM0034.
Full textThis thesis analyses, trough a case study, the operation of a rural micro-credit program implemented by Plan international NGO. It has then been changed into a formal institution and integrated into one of the largest network of mutual organizations in Senegal: UMPAMECAS. Our objective was to show how micro-finance organizations reconcile social and financial logics that are primarily contradictory, in their action after institutional changes. Considering the diversity of rules and operation modes observed in the institutions under scrutiny, we have mobilized the convention economy to build the framework of our analysis. The thesis is based on a diachronic quantitative analysis of those logics to understand what underlies them, power mechanism and stakes that make them evolve and stabilize. For a period from 2006 through 2008, we surveyed 169 people from different (wages-earners, elected, credits beneficiaries, etc.). This work has cast light on the transformation process of rural microfinance and its stakes. We have shown that, thanks to a methodology combining several principles from different cities, but essentially related to a “social logic”, the first generation of microfinance institutions have enabled several people living in rural areas, whose economic profile did not appeal to commercial banks, to get access to financial services. The institutional transformations induced by endogenous and exogenous facts have brought changes which should be dealt with by the institutions to ensure their sustainability. Our research has shown that to survive the transition and avoid conflicts, consultations should be conducted all through the process with all the stakeholders for all to agree on the objective of the transition, the way the process should be conducted and the reforms that need to be implemented. Besides, the newly implemented procedures should match local specificities. Furthermore, this thesis has shown the supremacy of the “tontine” systems (rotating saving and credit associations). Those systems have deeply evolved and enriched due to the hybridization of commercial, domestic and civic rules that make them today local organizations that strongly challenge formal structures in the collecting of savings
Paris, Bethany L. "INSTITUTIONAL LENDING MODELS, MISSION DRIFT, AND MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/msppa_etds/9.
Full textKala, Kamdjoug Jean Robert. "Aide à la décision pour la gestion des micro-crédits en Afrique : application à la sélection des CVECA au refinancement." Paris, EHESS, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003EHES0110.
Full textThe evaluation of microfinance institutions and the decision-making in the management of "microcrédits" are the motivations af these works. To bring solutions to these problems, we have developped a multicriteria decision aid methodology. This methodology aimed to perform "selection/elimination" tasks on objects in a multiactor context, where several points of view can be expressed. The methodology is composed of three stages. Initially, we determine the individual decision strategies of each expert. They are represented by "if then" rules. The second stages consists of computing a set rules, which takes into account the various decision strategies. Then we have a kind of "epistemic decision maker". This operation structures the decision space into three ordered zones : one for elimination, one for selection and the last one for doubt when the decision makers do not converge sufficiently. The third stage of our method provides a recommendationdecision makers when a new action is presented. Therefore, the classification of a new action is made easily for the first two zones. We propose a new decision aid method to perform recommendations for actions located in the doubt zone. This methodology is applied in Cameroon for the microfinance institutions selection process for refinancing in the PCRD (Projet Crédit Rural décentralisé), a decentralized rural credit project. It can be extended to other contexts and problems where several decision makers cooperate to make tasks of judgement on actions described by several ordinal qualitative criteria
García, Pérez Icíar. "Sustainability in Microfinance Institutions." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/666062.
Full textInspirado en el Programa de Acción de 1999 definido por Naciones Unidas en el que se describen ocho ámbitos pragmáticos para una Cultura de Paz. Mi propuesta trabajará sobre el apartado ‘Desarrollo económico y social sostenible’ evaluando las microfinanzas y las organizaciones que las gestionan, como herramienta para la consecución de este objetivo. Inmersos en un contexto global y bajo el prisma de la sostenibilidad, el análisis de desempeño de la actividad de las organizaciones no puede realizarse únicamente desde su ejercicio económico, sino que es preciso medir su impacto bajo una mayor amplitud de criterios (Fernández et al., 2013). El principal objetivo de esta tesis será contribuir a la mejora de la investigación de este sector, presentando una visión global del comportamiento de las IMFs en términos de desempeño sostenible, basado en un modelo que articule las dimensiones financiera, ambiental, social y de gobernanza de forma integrada.
Abd, El-Maksoud Sarah. "Performance of microfinance institutions." Thesis, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10369/8363.
Full textBatin, Artyom. "Risk management in microfinance institutions." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-201080.
Full textSukadi, Mata Ritha. "Microfinance and remittances." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209717.
Full textRemittances are three times the size of official development assistance (ODA) and the second source of external funds after foreign direct investment (FDI) for developing countries. Given their weight in receiving countries’ economies and household livelihood in many developing countries (for instance, remittances flows represent more than 25% of Lesotho’ and Moldavia’s gross domestic product in 2008), there is increasing policy and research interest in remittances as development resource. Furthermore, unlike FDI and ODA, remittances have the particularity to be directly affected to families, even those in remote areas, where development funds don’t arrive (Shaw, 2006). The thesis addresses the relationship between microfinance and the impact remittances have on domestic investment in developing countries.
Like other sources of external finance, remittances allow the economy to invest in human and physical capital (health, education), which contribute to growth (Ziesemer, 2006; Acosta et al. 2008). However, as remittances may be either directly consumed (remittances allow households to smooth their consumption, see for instance Lucas and Stark, 1985 and Glytsos, 2005) or used to invest in physical and human capital, it appears that their impact on domestic investment is perceived to be low or limited, given the amount of money they represent each year. According to literature, this is due to the small share that is dedicated to the launch or the support of economic activities. Actually, the allocation between consumption and investment, which depends on various factors such as the level of dependence households have with remittances, the migrant gender, and the existence of a credit constraint, varies on average around 10-20% of remittances that are not directly consumed (Salomone, 2006; Sorensen, 2004; Orozco, 2004). In the thesis we focus on the share of remittances that is saved and wonder how to maximize its impact, whatever this share. We are interested in the role of microfinance institutions, as actors of the financial sector, on this issue. Actually, two recent contributions, Mundaca (2009), and Giuliano and Ruiz-Arranz (2009), stress the role of the development of the financial sector. More precisely, the thesis focuses on a set of questions or issues that may be important for the microfinance industry to consider when interested in remittances flows and the deposits they may generate.
Financial development is generally defined as “increasing efficiency of allocating financial resources and monitoring capital projects, through encouraging competition and increasing the importance of the financial system. In other words, the development is about structure, size and efficiency of a financial system” (Huang, 2006). A large line of research work provides evidence that development of a financial system is a key driver of economic growth.
King and Levine (1993) argue that greater financial development increases economic growth. Levine and Zervos (1993) shows that growth is related to stock market activity, among other variables. Levine (1999) finds a significant effect of determinants of financial intermediation on economic growth. Beck et al. (2004) find strong evidence in favor of the financial-services view which stresses that financial systems provide key financial services, crucial for firm creation, industrial expansion, and economic growth. Levine (1997), Levine et al. (2000), and Beck et al. (2000) also stress the impact of financial development on growth. There is also an empirical literature that argues that the expansion and the deepening of the financial system lead to higher investment (see for instance Rajan and Zingales, 1998; Demirgüç-Kunt and Macksimovic, 1998).
By providing financial services to people whom traditionally do not have access to financial institutions, microfinance institutions (MFIs) may contribute to increasing the size of the financial system in many developing countries. Actually, according to the CFSI’s 2011 report, the one thousand-plus MFIs that report to the Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX) have 88 million borrowers and 76 million savers. Total assets of these MFIs amount to US$ 60 billion (CFSI, 2011).
The quite recent literature on remittances, financial development and growth can be categorized under two main approaches (Brown et al. 2011). One approach explores the relationship between remittances and financial development, with a view to assessing their impact on the level of financial development in receiving countries. The underlying argument is that remittances potentially contribute to financial development through both demand- and supply- side effects: by increasing households’ demand for and use of banking services, and by increasing the availability of loanable funds to the financial sector. According to this approach which consider the direct relationship between remittances and financial development, remittances have an impact on both financial outreach and depth in receiving countries, respectively through the fostering of financial literacy among remittances receivers and through the increasing availability of funds (see for instance Gupta et al. 2009, Aggarwal et al. 2011, Brown et al. 2011).
The second approach examines the remittances – financial development relationship indirectly by investigating how the given level of financial development in a country affects the impact of remittances on growth. This growth-focused approach allows for interactions between remittances and financial development in estimating growth equations for remittances receiving countries. Within the set of studies related to this approach, two opposing positions have emerged. The first position hypothesizes that the greater availability of financial services helps channel remittances to better use, thus boosting their overall impact on growth. Remittances are seen as financial flows in search of good investment projects, and good financial institutions are needed to facilitate the channeling of remittances to such investments. In this sense, remittances and financial system are complements. This position is supported by Mundaca (2009) who find that financial intermediation increases the responsiveness of growth to remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean over the 1970-2002 period. Other few studies also argue that channeling remittances through the banking sector enhances their development impact (see for instance Hinojosa Ojeda, 2003 and Terry and Wilson, 2005).
The other position argues that remittances contribute to investment and growth by substituting for inefficiencies in credit and capital markets. Remittances provide an alternative source of funding for profitable investments by alleviating liquidity constraints. In this sense, remittances promote growth more in less financially developed countries by substituting for lack of credits from financial institutions. This hypothesis is supported by Giuliano and Ruiz-Arranz (2009) who argue that poor households use remittances to finance informal investment in poorly developed financial markets with liquidity constraints. In their study, they interact remittances with a measure of financial development in standard growth equations, for a sample of 73 countries over the 1975-2002 period. Ramirez and Sharma (2009) obtain similar results using data from 23 Latin American countries over the 1990-2005 period.
The thesis contributes to existing knowledge on this indirect, growth-focused approach. Given the two existing opposite views on remittances impact on investment and the level of financial intermediation (a high level of financial development implies a high level of financial intermediation), in the thesis we first analyze the relationship that links these variables. We then analyses questions related to microfinance institutions (MFIs), as financial intermediaries.
Our focus on microfinance is made from two different perspectives, leading to different research questions. First, from the demand or microfinance clients’ perspective, we question about the interest for them to have MFIs entering the money transfers market (through the money transfer facilities and/or financial products that may be directly linked to remittances). The underlying argument is that MFIs enter the remittances market by providing money transfer services because there is a need for such services (and for other financial services) from their (potential) clients who are remittances receivers and migrants. According to this point of view, MFIs can contribute to recycle remittances flows into the financial system by contributing to the financial inclusion of remittances receivers and migrants thanks to the supply of adapted financial products. The occurrence of this assumption can therefore be measured by considering the involvement of MFIs on the remittances market as a determinant of financial inclusion indicators. Second, from the supply or MFIs’ perspective, we question about the rationale for MFIs to enter the remittances market. Here, the underlying argument is that MFIs are interested in operating on the remittances market because working with migrants can potentially contributes to the improvement of their financial and social performances. According to this perspective, remittances market opportunities as well as MFIs’ characteristics will determine the offer of money transfer services by MFIs. This supply approach therefore leads to the consideration of money transfers activities in MFIs as depending on remittances market opportunities and institutional variables.
Therefore, our papers related to microfinance will be articulated around these two questions (interest for clients and rationale for MFIs to have MFIs operating on the money transfers industry) by focusing, as argued earlier, on the deposits resulting from remittances flows.
As a matter of facts, by studying the relationship between microfinance and remittances respectively through the demand and the supply perspective, we raise causality issues related to MFIs’ money transfer activities and their impacts on MFIs performances. Actually, MFIs’ characteristics such as the right to collect public savings, as a potential source of efficiency gains, may significantly determine the supply of a money transfer service (MFIs’ perspective), while a money transfer service may itself be the determinant of some MFIs’ performance indicators related to financial inclusion, such as the volume of deposits made by clients (demand approach). However, given currently existing data on MFIs’ involvement on the remittances market we cannot consider simultaneously both perspectives in order to implement causality treatment techniques. Actually, the indicator of MFIs’ involvement we will use in our regressions is time invariant, therefore we are not able to build instrumental variables for instance (such as lagged values of our variable of interest) to eliminate econometric issues in our regressions. Nevertheless, through these two approaches taken separately, we contribute to some extend to the knowledge by putting in perspective different issues at stake for the microfinance industry.
Before we tackle our research questions we have an introductory chapter related to remittances flows: what are their trends, determinants and characteristics? The chapter also includes the definition of money transfer activities that we will use in the thesis, as well as an overview of MFIs’ involvement on the money transfers market.
Then, our research framework is divided into 4 sub-questions. The first one, treated in Chapter 2, is about the relationship between our variables of interest. What is the impact of the financial sector development (FSD) on the remittances’ impact on investment? This chapter aims at stressing the relationship existing between financial intermediation and remittances’ impacts on investment, which motivated our focus on MFIs (as financial intermediaries between remittances and the formal economy) in the following chapters. We focus on two transaction costs that decline with FSD. The first is the “Cost of Bank Depositing”, henceforth CDEP, which measures the difficulties of savers, particularly the less well-off, of depositing their savings in the formal banking system. The second transaction cost is the “Cost of External Finance”, henceforth CEXF, which measures the marginal cost for the banking system of borrowing in global financial markets. This cost is notably associated with the robustness of the country’s financial sector. In a stylized model of the lendable funds market, we analyze how both these variables affect the marginal effect of remittances on investment. We test model’s propositions using country-level data on remittances, investment, and proxies for both CDEP and CEXF, on a sample of 100 developing countries. We perform empirical tests using both cross-section and panel-data with country fixed effects, over the period 1975-2004. The results demonstrate, theoretically and empirically, that remittances and ease of access to the banking sector act as complements to stimulate domestic investment, while remittances and external borrowing are substitutes. We find that remittances flows stimulate local investment, as a part of remittances indeed become banks’ deposits, which increases the availability of lendable funds, reduces the interest rate and stimulates investment. In terms of policy implication, results suggest that enhancing financial sector development is crucial as it allows remittances to better fuel domestic investment. This is even truer when the access to international funds is difficult or costly. Improving the financial inclusion of remittances receivers by developing domestic banks’ ability to collect their savings is then a straightforward recommendation to policymakers who want to improve remittances impact on investment.
The second question, developed in Chapter 3 is related to the demand perspective of the relationship between microfinance and remittances. We want to assess whether there is a need from remittances receivers for financial products that may be linked to remittances. We aboard this question by assessing whether the supply of MTA leads to higher volume of deposits mobilized by MFIs, meaning that MFIs actually contribute or succeed in turning remittances into deposits. Using an original database of 114 MFIs –operating in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), South Asia (SA), East Asia and the Pacific (EAP), and Africa–, we perform empirical tests to study whether MFIs are able to capture migrants’ savings thanks to their money transfer activity. We test the impact of money transfer activity on deposits, using the natural logarithm of deposits as explained variable. Our main result suggests that money transfer activity has a significant positive impact on savings collection. MFIs involved in the remittances market thus attract more savings than MFIs that are not involved in it, probably coming from migrants and remittances receivers who are in need of adapted financial services. This confirms the opportunity MFIs may represent as a tool or a channel to improve remittances impact on investment. In that sense, MFIs should then be encouraged to operate on the remittances market, and to design financial products dedicated to migrants and remittances receivers.
The third question, developed in Chapter 4, is related to the supply approach of the relationship between remittances and microfinance. More precisely, we try to identify factors that seem to explain the availability of such service in the scope of services provided by MFIs. In this chapter, we focus first on potential sources of efficiency gains linked to the money transfer activity as a rationale for diversification (i.e. the expansion of the offer). And second, using an original database of 435 MFIs –operating in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), South Asia (SA), East Asia and the Pacific (EAP), and Africa–, we perform empirical tests using cross-section over the year 2006, to identify which environmental and institutional parameters have an impact on the willingness of a MFI to provide a money transfer service. We test the impact of various variables that are related to one of the rationale for MFIs to enter the money transfer market, namely economies of scale and scope as a source of efficiency gains, on the probability to have a money transfer service provided by a given MFI. Our main result suggests that the size, as well as the fact that an MFI collects savings have a positive and significant impact on this probability, while the level of financial development negatively impact it. This confirms among other things that the ability to realize economies of scale through a potential increase of collected deposits may be a determinant of managers’ choice to diversify. Policies that contribute to reduce entry barriers in low financially developed countries should then, among other things, be encouraged to have MFIs fully playing their role of intermediaries between remittances and the (formal) economy.
The chapter 5 questions about the institutional consequences for MFIs to collect migrants’ savings. The aim of this chapter is to give an insight on the opportunity migrants’ money (including remittances) could represent for the microfinance industry as a source of stable medium- and long-term funds. It is therefore related to the supply approach and the motivation for MFIs to enter the remittances market by analyzing the impact of migrants’ deposits (which include remittances) on another potential source of efficiency gains, namely the internal capital market. Through a case study approach, this chapter is devoted to the analysis of funding risk in microfinance, comparing migrants’ and locals’ time deposits. Migrants’ time deposits are expected to be of longer term and more stable (in terms of early withdrawals) than locals’ deposits. This assumption had never been tested yet. Based on an original database of 7,828 deposit contracts issued between 2002 and 2008 by 12 village banks belonging to a major Malian rural microfinance network (PASECA-Kayes), we used the Cox proportional hazard model to identify the variables that have an impact on the probability to have early withdrawals, and the technique of re-sampling to calculate withdrawal rates and deposits at risk. Results from the Cox methodology suggest that the migration status is not a direct determinant for the probability to have an early withdrawal. However, this probability increases with the amount deposited and the term of the contract which are both higher for migrants compared to non-migrants. The re-sampling method results suggest that withdrawal rates are not the same for the two categories of depositors observed. We find higher withdrawal rate distributions for migrants than for locals. The value at risk is also higher on migrants’ deposits than on locals’ deposits. However, as migrants tend to deposit for longer term than locals, through the calculation of durations we have measured to which extend migrants’ deposits still have a positive impact on MFIs’ liabilities. It appears that migrants’ money has a marginal but positive impact on time deposits durations, either when considering early withdrawals, which impacts are very limited, except in 2007 (the worst year in terms of amount withdrawn early). As our results show that MFIs that receive migrants’ deposits are not necessarily better-off than without migrants’ money in terms of funding risk - and durations - this paper has stressed the importance of assessing more carefully the role of migrants for the microfinance industry.
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Vu, Chi Thi Cam. "Microsavings and performance of microfinance institutions." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7272/.
Full textLaureti, Carolina. "Product design in microfinance." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209214.
Full textThis doctoral thesis contributes to this recent research stream by first surveying the literature on product design in microfinance, and then providing an empirical and a theoretical contribution. Precisely, the thesis is structured in four chapters. Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 are both reviewing the literature. Chapter 1, titled “Product Flexibility in Microfinance: A Survey”, reviews the academic literature on product flexibility in microfinance and offers a categorization scheme of flexible microfinance products. Chapter 2, titled “Innovative Flexible Products in Microfinance”, scrutinizes nine real-life practices covering microcredit, micro-savings and micro-insurance services that mix flexible features and commitment devices. Chapter 3, titled “The Debt Puzzle in Dhaka’s Slums: Do Liquidity Needs Explain Co-Holding?”, examines the use of flexible savings-and-loan accounts by SafeSave’s clients and tests whether the need for liquidity explains why the poor save and borrow simultaneously. Lastly, Chapter 4, titled “Having it Both Ways: A Theory of the Banking Firm with Time-consistent and Time-inconsistent Depositors,” proposes a theoretical model to determine the liquidity premium offered by a monopolistic bank to a pool of depositors composed of time-consistent and time-inconsistent agents.
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Sackey, Frank Gyimah. "Essays on microfinance institutions and human capital." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/404021.
Full textEl primer capítulo examina la medida en que el acceso al crédito y el racionamiento del crédito están influenciados por el tipo de microfinanzas basado en los principales factores que determinan las micro, acceso de las pequeñas y medianas empresas al crédito de las instituciones de microfinanzas en la era de la liberalización financiera. Los datos para el estudio fueron recogidos de los registros de crédito y préstamos de las instituciones de microfinanzas que comprendía las diversas piezas de información proporcionados por los prestatarios en el proceso de solicitud de préstamo. Nuestros resultados son desconcertantes y muestran que el racionamiento del crédito no está influenciada por los tipos de microfinanzas sino por las empresas microfinancieras individuales. Nuestros resultados también muestran que el tipo microfinanzas Gobierno es el más grave en el comportamiento de racionamiento El segundo capítulo tiene por objeto probar la política de microfinanciación de Ghana, creado para apoyar y capacitar a las personas vulnerables a través del acceso al crédito. Se recurre a la descomposición Blinder-Oaxaca para determinar si existe una discriminación positiva a favor de las mujeres y los jóvenes empresarios en el comportamiento de racionamiento de las empresas de microfinanzas. Esto es lo que deberíamos esperar si la política es efectiva. Nuestros resultados muestran que incluso después de controlar un gran número de características del prestatario, el tipo de microfinanzas y las variables de solvencia crediticia, existe una discriminación positiva que favorece a las mujeres empresarias y jóvenes. El tercer y último capítulo examina la importancia de las características de los países africanos "líderes" y transiciones de régimen y cómo estos factores afectan el estado de salud como un indicador de desarrollo de sus ciudadanos utilizando tasa de mortalidad infantil como medida. Un conjunto de datos única que comprende 45 países del África subsahariana que abarca desde 1970 t0 2010 se utilizaron para el estudio. Los resultados globales sugieren una ventaja democrática en el proceso de lograr resultados eficaces de política de salud para promover la salud y el bienestar de los ciudadanos en el África subsahariana contemporánea, al menos en el largo plazo.
The first chapter examines the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises’ access to credit from microfinance institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The data for the study were gleaned from the microfinance institutions’ credit and loan records consisting of the various pieces of information provided by the borrowers in the loan application process. Our results are puzzling and show that credit rationing is not influenced by the microfinance types but by the individual microfinance companies. Our results also show that the Government microfinance type is the most severe in the rationing behavior The second chapter aims at testing the Ghana Microfinance Policy, set up to support and empower the vulnerable through access to credit. We resort to the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to determine if there is positive discrimination in favour of women and young entrepreneurs in the rationing behavior of the microfinance companies. This is what we should expect if the policy is effective. Our results show that even after controlling for a large number of borrower characteristics, microfinance type and credit worthiness variables, there is positive discrimination that favors female and young entrepreneurs. The third and the last chapter looks at the importance of African countries’ leaders’ characteristics and regime transitions and how these factors affect the health status as a development indicator of their citizens using infant mortality rate as a measure. A unique dataset comprising 45 sub-Saharan African countries spanning from 1970 t0 2010 were used for the study. The overall results are suggestive of a democratic advantage in the process of achieving effective health policy outcomes for promoting health and the wellbeing of the citizens in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa, at least in the long run.
Chiumya, Chiara. "Regulation of microfinance institutions : Zambian case study." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2006. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488427.
Full textLekatsa, Teboho. "The sustainability of microfinance institutions in South." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29002.
Full textAnnim, Samuel Kobina. "Microfinance paradigm : institutional performance and outreach." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/microfinance-paradigm-institutional-performance-and-outreach(2b19d49b-ce81-49fe-b8ff-e65c20c7aa21).html.
Full textAmin, Azmat Najma. "Commercialisation de Microfinance : comment les Institutions de Microfinance (IMFs) peut attirer les investisseurs ?" Thesis, Pau, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PAUU2029/document.
Full textThis research examines the link between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and foreign investors (F.Is) in the context that commercialized Microfinance has double-bottom-line. The theoretical and conceptual framework for this study includes the agency theory, stakeholder’s theory, resource dependence theory and the concept of Socially Responsible Investment (SRI). The empirical study is based on a two-step process, an initial exploratory qualitative study carried out through semi-structured interviews with 9 fund managers (SRI) in order to understand well the topic and enrich the theories and concepts. The second step is a quantitative analysis through ordinary least squares (OLS) and logistic regression models using data of 615 MFIs for the year 2012 to verify the link between F.I and CSR and if financial performance plays a mediator or moderator role. For the first time in microfinance, a comprehensive/multi-dimensional definition of CSR is used and indicators calculated based on that. The results show that CSR is a key factor in investment decisions of F.Is and it shows a mediation effect of financial performance on the relationship between CSR and F.Is. In order to provide access to financial services at the bottom of the pyramid, MFIs need access to foreign investors. As CSR is taken into account by investors in their investment decision, therefore, MFIs need to focus on managing and reporting relevant CSR activities in order to attract and satisfy these investors
Ageeli, Ather. "From international social economic to the cooperative finance : illustration by a comparative study of the action of French and Saoudi institution ofsocial finance." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018UBFCH044.
Full textThe present dissertation is an attempt to bear out the significant role of cooperative finance institutions in Saudi Arabia. Cooperative finance in KSA is a new pattern of finance institutions created for non-lucrative purpose, firmly related to social economy. The main objectives of the elaborated thesis is to identify the contribution of institutions of microcredit in Saudi Arabia as an alternative of funding to assist the poor to improve their conditions of living and to eradicate poverty.The dissertation is providing a new alternative of funding for excluded individuals from the access to the funds of classical banking system and attempts to highlight the positive effects of microcredit on those beneficiaries. In the empirical research, the author principally conducted a survey on the customers of the microcredit institutions trying to determine if the attribution of microcredit had changed the life of the beneficiaries and enhanced their living conditions and to fight poverty.The empirical investigation focuses on a quantitative approach survey. The research relies on the distribution of a questionnaire on a sample of customers receiving the financial services of microcredit institutions. The choice of the sample of the study was severely conducted: the questions was posed on 2 groups of individuals: the first group is made up of the customers of the microcredit institutions and the second is including the witnesses of the program (not receiving credits).The findings of the empirical research are encouraging the financial services provided by microcredit institutions, playing a pivotal role in enhancing the conditions of living of poor population and improving the economic activities of the recipients of the credits. The survey allowed to deduce that microcredit had positive effects on various levels. It positively affected the abilities of control of the resources and the ability of management the customers and had increased the working capital of the economic activity and had improved the size of the business in the community of the beneficiaries through creating new opportunities for jobs
Paul, Bénédique. "Le capital institutionnel dans l'analyse du changement économique et social : application au secteur de la microfinance en Haïti." Thesis, Montpellier 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011MON10006.
Full textTheories in (New) Institutional Economics won recently the development debate. Meanwhile, the role of institutions is being taken into account progressively in development strategies analysis. Our research in Haitian Microfinance follows the same logic. Its fundamental idea is that development implies economic and social change and this is the result of a pattern of material and immaterial assets. Then, development is viewed as the process or outcome from the interaction of several capitals. In this study, we show that economic institutions structuring relations between economic agents are constitutive of a form of capital: the institutional capital. With an analysis based in the Haitian microfinancial intermediation, we find that institutional capital is a determinant condition for development strategies implementation. In microfinancial intermediation, institutional capital is a production of microfinance organizations. It influences users' behaviors of microfinancial services and generates economic and social outcomes. The main conclusion of our study using empirical evidence is the following: institutional capital matters, either for analytic purpose or as an asset used by economic agents to modify behaviors for change
Smit, Nicol. "Sustainability of commercial microfinance institutions in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97443.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The approach to offering financial services to the poor has evolved over the past decades. The microfinance schism between the two paradigms, institutionist and welfarist, has yet to be narrowed by evidence of greater success of the one over the other. The drive for commercialisation of microfinance institutions has spurred many crises across the globe and the validity of the argument that commercial microfinance is more sustainable has come under scrutiny. This research report dissects the sustainability of African Bank and Capitec, two commercial microfinance institutions. Accounting ratios are applied to the audited financial data of both microfinance institutions to measure their sustainability from 2007 up to their most recent audited results. The research has found that both microfinance institutions experienced rapid growth since 2007, primarily driven by larger average loan sizes over longer terms. The research shows that Capitec has more diverse sources of revenue and depends less on its loan portfolio to generate income than African Bank. It also shows that Capitec has a more conservative approach with regard to provisioning for loans, and is consequently better prepared for loan write-offs than African Bank. Overall, Capitec is found to be more sustainable in each period measured.
Schmied, Julian. "Financial performance and social goals of microfinance institutions." Universität Potsdam, 2014. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2014/6769/.
Full textDas Konzept der Mikrofinanzierung wurde, insbesondere im Zuge der Mikrofinanzkrisen in Asien und Südamerika zunehmend kritisiert. Dabei stand vor allem die Kommerzialisierung der Branche im Zentrum der Kritik. In dieser Studie soll daher unter anderem die sogenannte „Mission Drifts”-These also dass das eigentliche Ziel des Mikrokreditwesen aus den Augen verloren wurde, empirisch überprüft werden. Mit Hilfe des Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) Datensatzes, wurden Paneldaten von bis zu 1.400 Kreditinstitutionen, mit unterschiedlichen (Rechts-)formen, aus den Jahren 1995 bis 2010 ausgewertet. Die Regressionsanalyse hat gezeigt, dass Profitablität in der Tat einen negativen Einfluss auf das Ziel hat, möglichst arme Menschen zu erreichen. Auch der Trade-off zwischen der Reichweite von Mikrokrediten und kurzfristiger sowie langfristiger Profitabilität konnte nachgewiesen werden. Die Daten zeigten aber auch, dass Mikrofinanzinstitution dazu tendieren soziale Ziele zu vernachlässigen, wenn es im vergangenen Geschäftsjahr finanziell bergab ging.
Martinez-Gonzalez, Ariadna. "Technical efficiency of microfinance institutions evidence from Mexico /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1222266486.
Full textDarko, Francis Awuku. "Empirical analysis on microfinance institutions in developing countries." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/59673/.
Full textChristensson, Linn. "Microfinance Institutions and Poverty Reduction : Evidence from Nigeria." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-35626.
Full textHarraf, Omid. "Can microfinance eradicate poverty? analysis of the efficacy of microfinance using existing literature /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2008. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1456489.
Full textAkinosi, Oluwafunmilayo, Daniel Nordlund, and Alejandro Turbay. "Sustainable Microfinance." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2540.
Full textOnomo, Michel Bertrand Cyrille. "Mécanismes de gouvernance en microfinance : apport sur la performance des institutions de microfinance au Cameroun." Rouen, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010ROUED003.
Full textThe drawbacks of governance practices constitute one of the major risks that threaten le viability of microfinancial institutions (MFI). With regards to MFIs located in Central Africa and particularly in Cameroon, these limitations are related to the lack of transparency in the hiring processes of managers, in the process of organisational decision taking and in the method of choice or election of directors as well as in the system of control of chief executive. The aim of this work is to understand the functioning of governance systems of MFIs in Caemroon. Precisely, it was a matter of highlighting on one hand the governance mechanisms put in place in these institutions, and on the other hand to determine the link between these mechanisms and the performance governance in MFIs in Cameroon. Next to this mechanism, the chief executive compensation, controls y monetary authorities and by the credit’s union central organi (specifically in the case of credit union belonging to networks) and the evaluation of activities by rating agencies are additional mechanismes that assure the control of chief executive in these institutions. Moreover, the structure of leadership in the board of directors, the number of different trades counted bu the board of directions, controls by monetary authorities and by credit union central organ, evaluation by rating agencies, the level of education and the sentant of the chief executive have a positive influence on the performance indicators of these institutions. Unlikely, the presence of women in the board of directors and the number of annual meetings of the said board have a negative influence on these indicators. However, the number of directors, the independence of the board of directors vis-a-vis management and the regular (external) audit of the accounts of these institutions have no influence on their performance indicators
Bui, Thu trang. "Factors affecting microfinance development in Vietnam." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCD065/document.
Full textThe appearance of microfinance has been known as a remedy for many social ills rooted in poverty because of its efficacy in credit dispensation, social equality enhancement and reduction of poverty. Millions of poor and non-bankable people in developing countries have been provided access to formal financial services through microfinance programs. However, the development of microfinance is not a single model for all country and microfinance institutions (MFIs) have had various degree of sustainability. Many MFIs still face major constraints in their pursuit of effectively delivering microfinance services profitably. Expansion of microfinance programs remains a formidable challenge for the development of microfinance industry. What would be reasons for that inefficiency?This thesis seeks to contribute to the current state of knowledge and research thoroughly on the development and the characteristics of microfinance industry by investigating strategic factors affecting microfinance development in Vietnam context. It applies both qualitative and quantitative research methods.We develop comparative analysis between financial innovation of Vietnam microfinance system and two other international benchmarks namely Grameen Bank in Bangladesh and the Bank Rakyat of Indonesia (BRI) to figure out what constraints limit the scale and scope of Vietnam microfinance activities; what types of microfinance models are suitable: whether for-profit commercial models or social microfinance ventures in Vietnam context. Besides, empirical work is carried out using both OLS and GMM techniques to examine the impact of institutional environment as well as macroeconomic factors on MFIs’ profitability. The results present evidence on a dynamic role of profitability and economies of scale in microfinance. Loan quality seems to be a very important determinant of MFI’s profitability in Vietnam. Our analysis also confirms the significant role of State level as well as the decisive role in self-innovation of microfinance institutions
Malaki, Akhil. "Informal Finance and Microfinance in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago : An Institutional Study." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis : Almqvist & Wiksell International [distributör], 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-766.
Full textWalczak, Chloe. "The Fate of Microfinance Institutions as a Development Strategy." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/297780.
Full textLópez, Urresta Tania Lorena [Verfasser]. "Microfinance institutions and financial inclusion / Tania Lorena López Urresta." Frankfurt am Main : Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gGmbH, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1202722784/34.
Full textMulunga, Anna Magano. "Factors affecting the growth of microfinance institutions in Namibia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/8504.
Full textThe level of poverty in Namibia is relatively high. Access to finance is cited as one of factors hampering economic growth and poverty alleviation. Microfinance is seen as one of the effective tools that can address poverty alleviation by engaging the poor in sustainable economic activities. Microfinance services have existed in Namibia since the late 1990s, yet they have not attained growth. The main providers of microfinance services consist mainly of Micro-lenders, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOS), Public Financial Institutions (PFI) and to a less extent Commercial Banks (CB). This research report aimed to study and identify the problems that impact on the growth of microfinance finance institutions (MFIs) in Namibia. The findings of this study revealed that lack of regulatory and policy framework, lack of capital and high operational costs were the main problem areas hampering the growth of MFIs in Namibia. The study made recommendations which are aimed at enhancing the growth of microfinance institutions.
Mukama, Julius. "Problems affecting the growth of microfinance institutions in Tanzania." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50428.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: Microfinance services in Tanzania have existed for some years, yet have remained weak and slow to develop. Therefore, the objective of this study is to survey problems that impact on the growth of Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Tanzania. MFIs in Tanzania include commercial banks, rural community banks, on-bank financial institutions, NGOs and Savings and Credit Co-operative Societies (SACCOs). The problems in the microfinance sector are prioritised and show that the lack of sufficient capital to lend to clients is the problem that has the greatest impact on growth, followed by education level of clients. A number of these problems show agreement as expressed by the Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficients. The recommendations directly touch the provision of capital support to MFIs as a most priority criteria towards MFIs growth. Sufficient capital to lend to clients can decrease the impact of other problems that shows correlation with it, such as service quality to customers, attraction of low income earners, client focus, small and irregular cash flows from clients, as well as education level of clients. Finally, it is shown by a selected best practice matrix that solutions to problems impacting on the growth of MFIs in Tanzania depend on a combination of several best practices that can lead to sustainable solutions. Hence MFls may find a combination of relevant best practices that fit efficiently. effectively and economically to their respective operating environments.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Mikrofinansieringsdienste in Tanzania bestaan al geruime jare, maar is ongelukkig swak ontwikkeld en toon stadige groei. Die doelwit van hierdie studie is om probleme te identifiseer wat impakteer op die groei van die Mikrofinansiering-instansies (MFI) in Tanzania. MFIs in Tanzania sluit in kommersiele banke, landelike / gemeenskapsbanke, niebank finansiele instansies, Nie-regeringsorganisasies (NGOs) en Spaar en Krediet Samewerkende Gemeenskappe (SACCO's). Die probleme in die mikrofinansiering-sektor is geprioritiseer en dui daarop dat die gebrek aan beskikbaarheid van voldoende lenings-kapitaal die grootste impak op die sektor het, gevolg deur die vlak van onderwys-opvoeding van kliente. Verskeie van die probleme gelys vind ooreenkomste by mekaar, soos uitgelig deur die "Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficients". Aanbevelings gemaak, hou direk verhand met die voorsiening van kapitale ondersteuning aan MFIs, as die belangrikste kriteria wat sal lei tot MFI groei. Voldoende leningskapitaal kan die impak van ander probleme wat verband hou met die tekort aan kapitaal verminder, soos onder andere die kwaliteit van klientediens, die lae-inkomste mark wat bedien word, kliente fokus, klein / ongereelde inkomste-strome van kliente, asook die onderwys-opvoedingsvlakke van kliente. Ter afsluiting, dit is getoon deur die beste praktykbeginse/s matriks, dat die oplossing vir probleme wat impakteer op die groei van die MFI sektor in Tanzania, afhanklik is van 'n kombinasie van verskeie beste praktykbeginsels wat kan lei tot volhoubare oplossings. Sodoende kan MFIs 'n kombinasie van beste praktykbeginsels vind wat effektief en ekonomies sal werk vir hulle onderskeie omgewings.
Ngo, Mahop Blanche Sonia. "Measuring Risk of Microfinance Institutions: The Case of Cameroon." Digital WPI, 2019. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/1288.
Full textHeng, Sophyrum. "Assessing Outreach and Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions in Cambodia." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1429731492.
Full textZetek, Pavel. "Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions in Latin America and Asia." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-200216.
Full textMaitrot, Mathilde Rose Louise. "The social performance of microfinance institutions in rural Bangladesh." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-social-performance-of-microfinance-institutions-in-rural-bangladesh(19928eac-5064-4610-b163-a852371cf7f1).html.
Full textNyamsogoro, Ganka Daniel. "Financial sustainability of rural microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Tanzania." Thesis, University of Greenwich, 2010. http://gala.gre.ac.uk/6366/.
Full textSinghe, Steffi Sandra. "Commercialization of Microfinance in Cameroon : How can Microfinance Institutions manage their dual social and commercial goals?" Thesis, Nantes, 2020. https://archive.bu.univ-nantes.fr/pollux/show/show?id=af7850b5-b7d1-4408-a577-0827e515ebcb.
Full textThe commercialization of microfinance has brought to the forefront the financial performance of MF!s, with MF!s now adopting a commercial logic of profitability in addition to their established social logic of poverty alleviation. This poses a crucial management challenge for the MF!s in terms of balancing the social and commercial aspect of their mission. The main aim of this thesis is to understand how MFls overcome their challenges so as to achieve their dual social and commercial goals. lt draws on the bricolage concept as a theoretical perspective and on an abductive, exploratory and qualitative research approach. The thesis also aimed to provide a better understanding of the Cameroonian microfinance sector, in terms of its history and evolution, and the challenges specific to the sector. The study identifies various bricolage practices that the MF!s use to advance the fulfilment of their dual mission. The findings suggest the use of these bricolage practices by the MF!s to mobilize resources, build legitimacy, and increase outreach, in a context characterized by resource constraints. These three bricolage outcomes reinforce each other, and they all strengthen the achievement of the MF!s' dual goals. This research also highlighted the four phases of evolution of the Cameroonian microfinance sector and the five main challenges faced by MF!s in the sector. This thesis contributes to the microfinance literature. lt offers a new perspective on MF! dual-mission management by showing how MF!s mobilize bricolage practices to advance their dual social and commercial goals. lt brings light on the link between the literature on microfinance and bricolage
Aquice, Quispe Julio Cesar, JoséJuan Mamani, and Carrillo Meira Peña. "Pérdida de fidelidad de los clientes, por la alta rotación de personal del área de negocios en las instituciones especializadas en microfinanzas. (ciudad Arequipa)." Master's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/625988.
Full textJob rotation in companies in the Microfinance sector in Arequipa has generated special interest, turnover in the Business Area, specifically the position of Credit Analysts, because they have a direct impact on the loss of customer loyalty; At the same time, it generates different effects in the following areas of the company: in the area of human talent, recruitment, training and Impact costs are generated in the work environment; In the Business area, reduction of the loan portfolio, loss of clients, increase of the overdue portfolio, delay in the achievement of goals and reduction of profitability The rotation occurs between Banks (specialized in Microfinance), Financial, Municipal Savings Banks, Rural Savings Banks, Edpymes and Cooperatives, this rotation generates mainly three effects: (1) loss of clients, due to debt purchases; (2) decrease in the level of exclusivity, customers begin to have credit with other entities; (3) Over-indebtedness, increase your credit amount, maintaining your ability to pay The present research work will be based on a qualitative approach, finding that the rotation in the business area in the position of Credit Analyst, in the microfinance sector in the province of Arequipa, is caused by personal and Organizational type; This problem makes it necessary to identify the reasons for the rotation and be able to propose solutions, and to reduce the turnover of the Credit Analyst position, this will allow the loyalty loss of the clients to be mitigated. Therefore, this research work will review literature on Human Resources Management, Articles and studies on Staff turnover, which will allow finding suitable solutions to this problem.
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Waweru, Ruth Wambui. "Competitive strategy implementation in microfinance organisations in Kenya." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020815.
Full textSilva, Berta Arsénio da. "O desempenho das instituições de microfinanças: uma análise empírica transnacional (1996-2009)." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/3395.
Full textEste trabalho intitulado a "O Desempenho das Instituições de Microfinanças: Uma Análise Empírica Transnacional (1996-2009)" foi motivado por duas razões, primeiro, fruto do contacto com a parte operacional da agência Aga Khan para as Microfinanças (AKAM) em Moçambique, e pela oportunidade de realizar o trabalho final de mestrado nesta área financeira específica. As microfinanças integram projectos de desenvolvimento e de inclusão financeira para as pessoas que por diversas razões não têm acesso a serviços financeiros convencionais. Inúmeros estudos foram já realizados sobre o impacto das microfinanças como estratégia de desenvolvimento, bem como sobre a sustentabilidade destas instituições. Este estudo tem por objectivo avaliar e aprofundar o impacto de determinadas variáveis chave no desempenho das instituições de microfinanças (IMF), como sejam: macroeconómicas; institucionais; regulamentares; políticas; condições locais; e características geográficas e humanas do país. Através da revisão de literatura pretende-se, ainda, testar empiricamente algumas teorias, isto é: se um melhor funcionamento das IMF está associado a contextos economicamente mais adversos, pela maior permanência destas nestes ambientes; ou se as microfinanças funcionam como uma estratégia de desenvolvimento que precede a industrialização dos países; ou, ainda, se a performance das IMF tende a melhorar com o tempo. Utilizaram-se indicadores financeiros de sustentabilidade, de eficiência e de incumprimento para avaliar o desempenho das IMF com recurso a modelos econométricos e dados de painel. A amostra foi constituída por IMF distribuídas por diversos países do mundo, com diferentes estatutos (bancos, cooperativas, bancos rurais, NGO, NBFI) e maturidades. Após se efectuarem correcções de maneira a tornar os resultados econometricamente mais robustos, estes, para a maioria das variáveis externas, e não controláveis pelas IMF aqui consideradas, não têm impacto estatisticamente significativo nos indicadores de desempenho das instituições. Contudo, os resultados apontam para um impacto positivo e estatisticamente significativo entre o rendimento per capita do país e o rácio de créditos em mora, e para um impacto negativo, e igualmente significativo, entre o rendimento per capita do período anterior e o rácio de write-off. Paralelamente, o aumento do sector formal está associado a uma melhoria na qualidade do portfolio (reflectido no sinal obtido para o estimador da variável participação da força de trabalho no rácio de créditos em mora) das instituições, enquanto que, uma maior fracção da indústria no PIB está associada a piores rácios de write-off. A inflação é outra das variáveis relevantes com impacto positivo e estatisticamente significativo no indicador de eficiência - custo por cliente. Por último, comprova-se que os anos de experiência têm um efeito positivo mas marginalmente decrescente na sustentabilidade das IMF.
This research is entitled as "Microfinance Institutions Performance: an Inter-Regional Empirical Analysis (1996-2009)" the inspiration was a consequence of a field visit to the work inside Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance (AKAM) in Mozambique, and the opportunity to finalize the Masters degree in this specific social area. Microfinance is a development and financial inclusion strategy for non-bankable people that, because of different reasons, do not have access to traditional financial services. Several studies have already been conducted, focused on poverty alleviation and the social impact of microfinance (outreach of microfinance), as well as, on the challenges of a microfinance institutions (MFI) to reach financial sustainability. This study aims to evaluate in more depth the impact of different key-variables on IMF performance, namely: macroeconomic; institutional framework; regulation; political; local conditions; geographic and human characteristics of the country. Based on literature review this study also intends to empirically test some theoretical ideas, for example: microfinance is more developed in economic unstable areas due to a historical presence in these contexts; and microfinance as a development strategy that preceded industrialization ofthe countries; or even iftime tends to improve MFI performance. Econometric models and panel data regressions were used to assess the IMF performance in terms of sustainability, efficiency and default. The MFI dataset is distributed for different countries around the world, with different legal status (bank, cooperative/credit union, NGO and non-bank financial institutions) and different age/maturities. After using statistical techniques in order to increase the econometric robustness of the results, overall estimates show no statistical significant relationship between most external and non controlled variables studied on the performance indicators of IMF. However, the results showed a positive statistical significant impact of the current per capita income on at-risk ratio, and a negative significant impact of the previous year's per capita income on write-off ratio. Furthermore, an increase in the formal labor market is associated with a better portfolio quality (reflected by at-risk ratio coefficient on the workforce participation rate) of the institutions, whereas a larger share of manufacturing is associated with a higher write-off ratio. Inflation is another important variable with a positive and significant impact on efficiency indicators - cost per borrower. Finally, the results prove that MFI's tend to perform better initially and then taper off.
Cumbi, Gonqalo M. T. "The sustainability of microfinance in Mozambique." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/14638.
Full textIn the microfinance discourse, sustainability can relate to organisational, managerial and financial aspects. However, what is in vogue in mainstream analysis is the financial sustainability of MFIs throughout the world, especially in Africa, Asia and Latin America. What has attracted controversial debate on the self financial viability of MFIs is the extent they have maintained the balance between achieving substantial levels of profitability (through employing the institutionalist approach), and being agents of poverty-alleviation (through the welfarist approach). Analysing the mixed fortunes of the five MFIs in Mozambique between 2005 and 2009, this study explores the scope and patterns of outreach programmes as an essay in service-delivery by the MFIs, the repayment capacity of the different stripes of clients, the cost-control regime adopted by the MFIs and the ultimate variegated levels of success realised, and the challenges faced by the MFIs in different provinces.
Khachatryan, Knar. "Managing microfinance institutions : linking performance with service and capital portfolios." Phd thesis, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00911726.
Full textSchulte, Markus [Verfasser]. "Selected Essays on the Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions / Markus Schulte." Frankfurt am Main : Frankfurt School of Finance & Management gGmbH, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1198716444/34.
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