Institutional Authority or Powers of Human Proximity? Impact of Chosen Macroeconomic Indicators on Quality of Microfinance Portfolios
Portfolio quality is the lighthouse indicator of the finance– macro economy nexus, even more important in unstructured immature environments of development finance sector such as microfinance. Growing over indebtedness indicated by deteriorating portfolio quality seems to signalup c oming stress i n m o st m i crofinance m a rkets, b e coming a r icocheting s pecter of a global repayment crisis lurking in the shades of the past repayment crisis. The question what factors are important for the portfolio quality thus acquires new significance as resources demarginalizing microfinance including regulatory attention are to be directed to most efficient directions.
