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A Comprehensive Review of Microfinance Impacts, Sustainability and Outreach

M. Wakilur Rahman
Department of Rural Sociology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh

A. S. M. Golam Hafeez
Department of Agricultural Finance, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh

Abstract/ Executive Summary:

This study reviews peer reviewed journal articles on microfinance impacts, sustainability, and outreach over the period 1997 to 2011. The review suggests mixed results on the impacts of microfinance worldwide, and fails to discover a concrete relationship between outreach and sustainability. However, the review confirms microfinance institutions extend financial and nonfinancial services to the bottom of the pyramid ignored by traditional financial institutions and considered un-bankable. The paper contributes to extant microfinance literature and guides inexperienced microfinance practitioners toward further academic research and publishing their work in relevant journals.

Keywords: Microfinance; Poverty alleviation; Impact; Sustainability; Outreach

Location: Data collected from Google scholar, science directory, and specific journal websites

Start Date: 00-00-1997

End Date: 00-00-2011

Program Area: Socio-economic and Policy

Commodity: Buck wheat

Objectives:

To gather knowledge about academic research paths, and publishing their work in relevant journals.

Methodology:

The study adopts a desktop research approach. The sample consisted of peer-reviewed journal articles published from 1997 to 2011 (past fifteen years). Peer-reviewed articles were collected using various search engines (Google scholar, science directory, and specific journal websites). Microfinance impact, sustainability and outreach were used as keywords while searching for the articles. These searches produced over 350 articles of which 302 articles were sorted by a skimming process based on relevance to microfinance sustainability, outreach and impact.Descriptive statistics were calculated to categorize and sub-categorize the articles based on their primary focus, regional coverage, year of publication and journal category. Eighty peer reviewed articles are cited in this review since only those are considered relevant to this study’s purpose. A similar approach of Brau and Woller applies in reviewing paper.

Source of Information: Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension, Economics & Sociology, 6(2): 64-76, (2015)

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1. Government

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Achievement/Findings:

This review may guide early microfinance practitioners in finding further academic research paths, and publishing their work in relevant journals.

Knowledge Management: Journal