With the growth of competition within the micro-finance industry, economists have favored its existence basing their argument on its ability to increase the welfare of consumers by promoting productivity efficiency, i.e. ...

This paper examines the competition effects on microfinance lending interest rates while also considering firm profitability and social outreach. The study, which covers microfinance institutions in 32 countries in Sub-Saharan ...

Market structure as represented by market concentration and competition affects the technical efficiency of the banking industry. However, the direction of the relationship between market structure and technical efficiency ...