Microfinance institutions and efficiency

Omega

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-142

  Gutiérrez Nieto, Begoña ^a   Serrano Cinca, Carlos ^a   Mar Molinero, Cecilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Banking; DEA; Efficiency; Microcredit; Microfinance; Operations management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748276732     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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