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- Mar, 2013Introduction In 2012, social performance (SP) reporting for Nepal surged.[1] While at the beginning of the year only one microfinance institution (MFI) had reported SP profile data to MIX, by December 31st there were 35.[2] This means that 95% of the...
- Mar, 2013Introduction Mexico and Bangladesh are currently tied for the title of second place in global social performance (SP) profile reporting.[1] As of mid-March 2013, 41 Mexican microfinance institutions (MFIs) have submitted SP profile data to MIX—only India...
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- Feb, 2013Click through the presentation to learn about the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Asia for 2011. Some interesting findings from the data and analysis revealed that:Asia is a global leader in the total percentage of deposits and...
- Jul, 2012Rwanda is still very much a nation working towards recovery. In 2000, nearly two-thirds of the population was living below the national poverty line. Five years later, poverty rates remained at nearly 60 percent. However, Rwanda has experienced positive...
- Jun, 2012Kenya has been among the most frequently-cited countries in discussions of financial inclusion, especially surrounding the rise of mobile money. Given this rapid change, what types of financial services does someone in Kenya have access to today? Is...
- May, 2012The 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, 2012In 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...
- Nov, 2011Growth slows, followed by the decline The 2010 crisis in Andhra Pradesh (AP) halted the rapid expansion of the Indian microfinance market, causing a high concentration of microfinance institutions in AP to become unsustainable. For the first time,...
- Aug, 2011In 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...
- Jul, 2011A recent spate of articles, commentaries and in some cases regulations have highlighted the pitfalls of rapid expansion, over-indebtedness and default. The experience of the microcredit sector in Afghanistan is in many ways a microcosm of...
- May, 2011How can we define responsible financial performance? This is part two of a four-part series covering our current state of knowledge about the relationship between key financial and social performance indicators, produced as a prelude to the...
- May, 2011Last week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued new regulations for microfinance providers, based on the conclusions of the Malegam Committee. Since the regulations contain several provisions that can be analyzed using public data on the sector, we...
- Mar, 2011Bosnia 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, 2011The 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...
