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- MIX Global 100 Composite: Rankings of MFIs is an anlysis and ranking of MFI performance based on data from calendar year 2008. This Excel table allows you to see how your MFI compares to #1 ranked MBK Ventura and the other 711 MFIs whose...
- Feb 23, 2010For the third year running, MIX presents its Composite Ranking of the performance of microfinance institutions. Based on data published on MIX Market, the MIX Global 100 Composite Ranking attempts to provide a composite picture of MFI performance using a...
- The Bulletin Tables are designed to present performance benchmarks against which managers and directors of microfinance institutions can compare their institution’s performance with that of similar institution. Since the microfinance industry consists of...
- By the third quarter of 2008, as the financial crisis was consuming large investment and commercial banks and the flow of credit dried up, the microfinance community asked itself how the crisis in the broader economy would impact microfinance...
- Microfinance practitioners have often sought a single, easy-to-understand indicator for evaluating the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs). To date, the most commonly used indicator has been financial self-sufficiency (FSS). However, FSS is...
- The global crisis is spreading quickly in emerging markets but little is known about its impact on the microfinance sector: Which regions are most affected and why? Are microfinance institutions (MFIs) resilient to this unprecedented economic downturn?...
- In the last ten years, conventional wisdom has held that microfinance as an asset class enjoys a striking lack of correlation with trends in the global economy. The informality of most of the microbusinesses feeding into the microfinance industry was...
- Approximately 1 billion people — or nearly one-sixth of the world’s population — subsist on less than USD 1 per day. Of this population, 162 million survive on less than USD 0.50 per day. According to the International Food Policy Research Institute,...
- As the inflation rate in Pakistan crosses 25 percent per annum — the highest in almost three decades — there is justifiable concern that the Pakistani citizen, particularly the poor, will suffer the most and will bear the severest brunt of this economic...
- July 2009The newest issue of the MicroBanking Bulletin focuses on the global economic crisis and the impact it is having on microfinance, its clients and other aspects of the industry. This issue includes feature articles from Pakistan Microfinance Network and...
- April 2008The MBB Trend Lines use a peer group framework that draws on microfinance institutions that have reported for at least four consecutive years to MIX. The MBB also includes articles contributed by industry professionals. This issue includes articles on...
- August 2008MIX collects, analyzes and benchmarks performance data on MFIs throughout the developing world. The benchmark data that appears in the MicroBanking Bulletin are medians placed into peer groups, to give a better, more complete understanding of the...
- December 2009The latest issue of the MicroBanking Bulletin includes MFI benchmark tables that reflect the onset of the global economic slowdown and financial crisis. Almost 1100 MFIs are benchmarked - the most robust data set to date from MIX - and they collectively...
- July 2003Focusing an issue of the Bulletin on Savings has generated widespread interest. This issue addresses key questions around savings mobilization. A few include: Why do clients want access to savings? What are they looking for in a savings ...
- April 2006The 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; “...