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- 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,...
- 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, 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...
- Jan, 2011Looking forwardIndian MFIs rely on debt to finance most of their operations, with most of these funds coming from Indian banks based on priority-sector lending arrangements. During the crisis in Andhra Pradesh, this stock of debt has been seen as both a...
- Dec, 2010The 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, 2010As observers of the current microfinance situation in Andhra Pradesh disentangle the contributing factors leading up to this current crisis, a number of proposals for avoiding future crises have emerged. Many of these proposals tap the same central...
- Sep 1, 2010The Inverting the Pyramid series was launched by Intellecap in 2007 as an attempt to capture the growth of the microfinance industry in India on an annual basis and track the efforts made, success achieved and challenges that remain. Every year, it maps...
- Feb 1, 2008This report draws on outreach data from 18 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Nepal and financial performance information from a subset consisting of 9 retail microfinance banks. The sector’s performance is contextualized against results from a...
- Dec 6, 2007This report, produced by M-CRIL and MIX covers the seminal Indian microfinance market, including trends and benchmarks. Please note, the file size of this publication is over 6mb, and may take a few minutes for download. The past 18 months have...
- Jun 12, 2007This Performance Trends Report (PTR) is provided by MIX to the participating MFI, allowing the microfinance institution to compare its performance against that of its peers over a period of time. The publication of this report was approved by the ...
- Oct 25, 2006The Bangladesh Benchmarking Highlights 2005 is a special report on the state of the much discussed microfinance sector in Bangladesh. Known for the behemoth scale of its leading microfinance providers, Bangladeshi microfinance still leads the...
- Oct 1, 2006The 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...
- Jun 12, 2006This is a sample of the Customized Performance Report (CPR) that MIX creates for the participating MFI. It is used by MFIs to compare performance against that of their peers at a one given point of time. BURO in Bangladesh generously agreed to allow us...
