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What are the issues? -- Positive mechanisms -- Negative mechanisms -- A capability perspective -- Achieving poverty outreach, impact and sustainability: managing trade-offs in microfinance / Anton Simanowitz -- Introduction: Combining social and financial objectives -- Trade-offs -- Managing trade-offs -- Conclusions -- Smart subsidies / Jonathan Morduch -- Introduction -- Subsidies and microfinance -- Valuing subsidies -- 'Crowding in' and 'crowding out' -- Conclusions -- Empirical analysis -- Efficiency in microfinance institutions: an application of data envelopment analysis to MFIs in Peru / Yves FluÌckiger and Anatoli Vassiliev -- Introduction -- Previous research on MFIs' performance evaluation -- Performance analysis methodology -- Data sources and variable construction -- Efficiency analysis with the DEA model -- Conclusions -- Efficiency in financial intermediation: theory and empirical measurement / Thorsten Beck -- Introduction -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: theory -- Interest spreads and credit rationing: cross-country evidence -- Decomposing spreads -- Explaining spreads -- Conclusions and policy lessons -- Efficiency drivers and constraints: empirical findings / Yousra Hamed -- Introduction -- Methodology -- The data -- MFI clusters -- Performance drivers and constraints -- Conclusions -- Measuring the performance of MFIs: an application of factor analysis / Giovanni Ferro Luzzii and Sylvain Weber -- Introduction -- The data -- Factor analysis: theory and practice -- Cluster analysis -- Assessing what determines performance -- Conclusions -- Selected country studies -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Mali / Renata Serra, Fabrizio Botti and Milasoa Cherel-Robson -- Introduction -- Domestic contextual factors: institutions, state and markets -- External factors: the implications of subsidy withdrawal -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Morocco / SaaÌd Filali Meknassi -- Introduction -- Institutional context -- Support by banks -- Subsidies -- Conclusion -- Contextual factors determining poverty outreach and financial performance: the case of Eastern Europe and Central Asia / Jusyna Pytkovwsa -- Introduction -- Access to resources -- Financial performance -- Social performance -- Auctioning subsidies: Chile's 'Access to Credit Program' / Vito Sciaraffia Merino -- Introduction -- Microenterprises in Chile -- Has the PAC achieved its goals? -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Policy implications / Bernd Balkenhol -- Global donor support to microfinance -- Weight of subsidies in microfinance -- What prompts public policy support to MFIs? -- General effects of public policy on efficiency in microfinance at the sectoral level -- Support measures affecting the efficiency of individual MFIs -- The way forward: how to support the best of class and the others -- Annex I : The GIAN survey -- Annex II : Multivariate analysis and classification: social and financial performance -- Annex III : Multivariate analysis and classification: efficiency, social and financial performance -- Bibliography -- Index. 650 0 $a Microfinance. 650 0 $a Microfinance $z Developing countries $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Poverty $z Developing countries $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Small business $z Developing countries $x Finance $v Case studies. 650 17 $a Kredietverlening $2 gtt 650 17 $a Ontwikkelingssamenwerking. $2 gtt 650 17 $a Armoede. $2 gtt 700 1 $a Balkenhol, Bernd. 710 2 $a International Labour Organization. 856 41 $3 Table of contents only $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0720/2007025503.html 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2007025503-b.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0730/2007025503-d.html 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180102061201.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160824041622.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090708133753.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B4FF80466BF211DEA13FF332A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search