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- 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...
- Recent developments in the financing of microfinance have focused on the underlying microfinance portfolio. In the case of the BRAC securitization described in detail in this issue of the MicroBanking Bulletin, this can mean the packaging and selling of...
- Talk of commercialization, once the reserve of analysis of Latin American microfinance, has captured the global microfinance news headlines over the last few years. Greenfield microfinance banks have opened their doors and grown in waves, whether as...
- There are many common measures for efficiency, either looking at cost per unit such as cost per borrower or cost per loan, or looking at cost per dollar lent: operating expenses over loan portfolio, personnel expenses over loan portfolio or over total...
- Those of us working in development know to be wary of the latest fads. This has naturally led many of us to be cautious of the phrase “evidence-based aid”, popularised most recently by the MIT-based Poverty Action Lab. Evidence-based aid, spearheaded by...
- The significant rise of the microfinance industry over the past 30 years has produced an ever-increasing number of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the developing world. Over the past ten years the industry has been supported largely by development...
- The GIAN/RUIG1 project “Microfinance and Public Policy” was implemented from 2004 to 2006 by the ILO in partnership with the University of Geneva, the Geneva Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) and the University of Cambridge. The project sought to...
- The 2008 MFI Benchmarks includes data collected from 1,084 microfinance institutions worldwide and presents these data according to peer groups based on three main factors: region, scale, and sustainability. Download the complete tables…
- Over the past decade, there has been an industrywide effort to identify and implement financial reporting standards for microfinance institutions. The objective is to provide uniform financial information for all MFIs, regardless of size, maturity or...
- Is social performance profitable? The question may be cynical, but nevertheless relevant for microfinance to keep its “promise” of being an economically viable development tool (Morduch, 1999). For years, the sector focused on sustainability and growth,...
- After decades of innovation and experimentation, microfinance sectors worldwide have achieved impressive successes. The microfinance community has joined efforts to achieve worldwide public recognition of microfinance as an effective and sustainable...
- In the past few years there have been attempts to mobilize savings via branchless banking models in general and the mobile phone in particular. There is a recognition that savings, probably more than any other financial service, requires proximity and...
- The microfinance industry is increasingly focused on deposit mobilization. On the demand side, there is a growing sense that poor people should have a broader range of financial instruments available to them rather than only credit. On the supply side,...
- As the world watched the financial crisis and ensuing economic slowdown unfold in developed economies in late 2008, observers of microfinance braced themselves for the fallout on microfinance institutions, some of which began to appear by the end of 2008...
