Performance assessment and definition of improvement paths for microfinance institutions: An application to a network of village banks in Cameroon
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Keywords
financial performance; social performance; data envelopment analysis; community growth mutual funds; DEA operating frontiers; benchmarking; financial and social efficiency; performance indicator; improvement path; financial sustainability; outreach to the poor; microfinance; mission drift;All these keywords.
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BAN-2020-06-29 (Banking)
- NEP-EFF-2020-06-29 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-MFD-2020-06-29 (Microfinance)
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