Impact Measurement of Microfinance Outreach

Microfinance outreach is a mission that encompasses all operations of microfinance institutions, it is an important goal to achieve operational sustainability and performance for most microfinance service providers, and help them scale up outreach of financial services to meet the demands, and needs of many poor and low-income people who often have limited outreach to formal financial services due to a number of barriers to their capacity, financial understanding and accessibility. The compilation of the content of this monographs book provides the overall contents of microfinance outreach through the measurement of microfinance outreach indicators. The quantitative models in the microfinance outreach are introduced to find out the factors affecting the microfinance outreach indicators, measuring customer satisfaction towards microfinance outreach and the interaction relationships of microfinance outreach indicators. The content of the book, Impact Measurement of Microfinance Outreach associates the microfinance outreach with the quantitative models, not going into proving the testing tools of econometrics but focusing on application tools in analyzing the results of quantitative models. Each quantitative model used in microfinance outreach research has important implications in many angles. The quantitative models will provide theoretical and empirical foundations that contribute positively to research and practical applications for many readers, students and postgraduate students.