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Microfinance Performance

In: Microfinance

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  • Marco Tutino

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This chapter proposes a model of performance analysis for microfinance programmes and institutions in order to evaluate actual or expected results. In particular, performance evaluation approach should be considered from two distinct perspectives: 1) the first approach is related to the performance of a single project managed adopting a perspective like that of project financing, as could occur in the case of a non-formal institution, mainly an NGO of reduced dimensions; 2) the other performance evaluation relates to an MFI that handles significant operative volumes, and reasons from the vantage point of a portfolio of projects. The theoretical framework, consisting of the traditional literature on performance, is contextualized according to the specific rationale that characterizes the microfinance operation. Performance evaluation, moreover, is not a new subject matter in microfinance. On the international level, different models of evaluation have been developed over the course of the last few years. This chapter presents a brief reconstruction of the methodologies currently used in microfinance for performance analysis, identifying the main characteristics of each, the areas of analysis considered by their measure, and the principal limitations on information that can occur.

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  • Marco Tutino, 2006. "Microfinance Performance," Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions, in: Microfinance, chapter 7, pages 112-131, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:pmschp:978-0-230-62758-1_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230627581_7
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