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Table 1 Summary of extant reviews in the microfinance domain and our study

From: Does microfinance foster the development of its clients? A bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review

Author(s)

Scope of the review

Time period

Type of study

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