Microfinance Information Exchange

Publications

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  • May, 2012
    The South Africa Map of Financial Inclusion maps data on more than 40,000 points of service in South Africa, covering a wider range of providers than in any other survey of the market. The data goes beyond commercial banks and MFIs to cover pawnshops,...
  • Jan, 2012
    In August 2011, MIX launched a map that displays the location of 819 microfinance banks currently licensed to operate in Nigeria. The map gives a basic view on the market supply of microfinance services, in the context of some key factors such as mobile...
  • Aug, 2011
    In 2006, the Central Bank of Nigeria began to transform a network of several hundred community banks into ‘microfinance banks’ (MFB). Since that time, the registration rolls have ballooned, now to over 900 institutions, albeit not without...
  • Mar, 2011
    Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the largest markets in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, experienced rapid growth from 2006 to 2008, but crashed in 2009 as a result of high indebtedness among clients and the adverse effects of the global financial crisis....
  • Mar, 2011
    The development of microfinance in Uzbekistan at the end of the 1990s started with the government strategy to support the development of private entrepreneurship and small and medium size business in the country. These efforts were accompanied by the...
  • Mar, 2011
    Since 2008 and after more than a decade of strong growth, the microfinance sector of the WAEMU experienced a slowed growth due to indirect effects of the financial crisis, which led to a slowdown of certain categories of economic actors. Growth was also...
  • Feb, 2011
    Depuis 2008 et après plus d’une décennie de forte croissance, le secteur de la microfinance au sein de la région UEMOA a ralenti sa croissance en raison des effets  indirects de la crise financière sur le ralentissement des activités de certaines...
  • Jan, 2011
    The Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) released its annual report Microfinance Market Report for Latin America and the Caribbean 2010.  The report is a comprehensive analysis on the state of the microfinance industry in the Latin America and...
  • Dec, 2010
    The rapid growth of Indian microfinance has been at the center of the recent crisis - industry watchers focus on whether microfinance loan portfolios have grown too aggressively and if the debt burden on clients has become unmanageable. Microfinance...
  • Nov, 2010
    Las Microfinanzas en Nicaragua, las cuales destacaban años atrás en el istmo centroamericano y que fueron un referente internacional debido a su constante crecimiento, gran afluencia de inversionistas extranjeros, rentabilidad estable y riesgo controlado...
  • Nov, 2010
    El presente informe incluye un análisis de los resultados de las IMF ecuatorianas agrupadas simultáneamente por tipo de crédito y autosuficiencia financiera al cierre del ejercicio 2009. De esta forma, se busca explorar los factores que caracterizaron a...
  • Oct 1, 2006
    The India Performance and Transparency report 2005 is a brief on transparency and performance of the Indian microfinance industry. Within Asia and worldwide, leading Indian microfinance institutions have the highest leverage. Indeed, compared to...