Author(s) | Scope of the review | Time period | Type of study |
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Brau and Woller (2004) | Microfinance sustainability, products and services, management practices, clientele targeting, regulation and policy, and impact assessment | 1990–2003 | Literature Review |
Duvendack et al. (2011) | Impact of microfinance on poor's well-being | No time limit–2011 | Content analysis |
Van Rooyen et al. (2012) | Impact of microfinance on poor people in sub-Saharan Africa | 2001–2010 | Content analysis |
Roy and Goswami (2013) | Performance of microfinance institutions | 1995–2010 | Bibliometric analysis |
Copestake et al. (2016) | Historical review of doctoral research studies on microfinance | 1985–2015 | Literature Review |
García-Pérez et al. (2017) | Sustainability categorized by economic, environmental, social and governance perspectives of microfinance institutions | 1993–2016 | Bibliometric analysis and content analysis |
Fall et al. (2018) | Efficiency and performance of microfinance institutions | 2003–2016 | Meta-regression analysis |
Hermes and Hudon (2018) | Determinants of social and financial performance of microfinance institutions | 1990–2017 | Content analysis |
Gutiérrez-Nieto and Serrano-Cinca (2019) | Chronological evolution of microfinance research topics and trends: welfarists, institutionalists and generalists | 1997–2017 | Bibliometric analysis and content analysis |
Zaby (2019) | Comprehensive review of general microfinance literature | 1989–2020 | Bibliometric analysis |
Nogueira et al. (2020) | Social and economic microfinance institutions' performance | No time limit–2019 | Bibliometric analysis |
Akter et al. (2021) | Social and financial performance of microfinance institutions | 1995–2020 | Bibliometric analysis |
Our study | Outcomes of microfinance for their recipients, namely more vulnerable people, focusing on demand side of microfinance | 01:2012–03:2021 | Bibliometric and content analysis |