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The Microbanking Bulletin

MBB ISSUE NO. 12, SPRING 2006: FOCUS ON MFI PERFORMANCE BY REGION

Date: 
April 2006
Quick summary: 
This twelfth edition of MIX’s MicroBanking Bulletin contains an industry “first”, a collection of articles focusing on microfinance institutions’ performance organized on regional bases.

The featured articles, and book review of this issue are: “Overview of the Outreach and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Africa” by Anne-Lucie Lafourcade, Jennifer Isern, Patricia Mwangi, and Matthew Brown; “Championship League: An Overview of 80 leading Latin American Providers of Microfinance” by Jared Miller and Renso Martinez; “Performance and Transparency: A Survey of Microfinance in South Asia” by Blaine Stephens and Hind Tazi, and “Madeline Hirschland (ed.), Savings Services for the Poor: An Operational Guide” by Charles Waterfield. In the Bulletin Highlights section, Blaine Stephens and Peter Wall discuss the median financial and operational results for 302 MFIs, as well as, the second edition of the MicroBanking Bulletin Trend Lines, intended to address the pressing need to meaningfully track industry performance over time.

Articles in this issue:

Overview of the Outreach and Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Africa

Anne-Lucie Lafourcade, Jennifer Isern, Patricia Mwangi, and Matthew Brown

Championship League: An Overview of 80 leading Latin American Providers of Microfinance

Jared Miller and Renso Martinez

Performance and Transparency: A Survey of Microfinance in South Asia

Blaine Stephens and Hind Tazi

Book Review: Savings Services for the Poor - An Operational Guide

Charles Waterfield

2004 Benchmarks: Profitable Growth Continues to Drive Down Costs

Blaine Stephens and Peter Wall

2004 Benchmark Tables