I have only just started thinking about the thesis, so there are a lot of unknows still.
Right now I am working on a two-stage approach
In the first stage, I will look at some quantitative data on microfinance institutions in order to arrive at factors which affect the performance or delivery of microfinance. These factors can be for example
- the degree of ethnic homogeneity society,
- the regulatory environment
- the organizational setup: NGO, commercial bank or in-between
- the level of corruption
- the region
etc.
I am currently working with data from CGAP’s report on microfinance from 2003 plus data from ratingfund.org and mixmarket.org.
In the second stage, I will look more closely at one of the factors through some case-studies of MFIs. In this stage, I will use some theory from political science, probably on policy implementation.
Comment and suggestions are welcome!
