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Sustainability, the Zeitgeist in Inclusion at European Microfinance Week 2015

When we use the word sustainability in financial inclusion terms, what does it mean? Does it stand for profit or a long-term perspective that looks beyond the next reporting deadline? Is it a code word for triple bottom line accounting – people, planet, profit? Or maybe sustaining financial services in the face of natural disaster or armed conflict? What about crisis avoidance – cooling overheating markets and preventing over-indebtedness?

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Learning Curve Spillovers and Transactions Cost in the Microfinance Industry of the Philippines

How Philippine MFIs attain operational self-sufficiency in spite of high transaction costs
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Microfinance Performance and Informal Institutions: A Cross-country Analysis

Analyzing the success of microfinance by country relative to the level of shared norms and values
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Outreach Performance and Financial Sustainability of Interest-free Microfinance Institutions in Alappuzha, Kerala

Is there a relationship between poverty outreach and financial performance?
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The Microfinance Industry Needs an Infrastructure Fix: Summary of Findings and Recommendations

An investigation of the information infrastructure needed to support the sector
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Religiosity and Threshold Effect in Social and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions: System GMM and Non-linear Threshold Approaches

Understanding the link between social beliefs and MFIs' financial and social performance
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Financial Performance and Corporate Governance in Microfinance: Who Drives Who? An Evidence From Asia

Examining the relation between corporate governance mechanisms and financial stability in MFIs
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All India Benchmark Tables: Indian Microfinance Sector FY 2013-14

Analyzing the performance of Indian MFIs in FY 2012-13 and FY 2013-14
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Social Versus Financial Return in Microfinance

Providing empirical evidence on the relationship between social and financial performance of MFIs