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- 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...
- 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...
- Mar, 2011Since 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, 2011Depuis 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...
- Nov, 2010Microfinance, however measured, has increased rapidly in Ghana since the start of the present decade, growing by 20-30 percent annually. Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) currently provide financial services to an estimated 15 percent of the...
