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- Aug 4, 2010By Adrian Gonzalez, Lead Researcher at MIX MIX Data Brief No. 7: The microfinance industry has long speculated about potential trade-offs between financial and social goals. While struggling to achieve rapid growth, serve more clients, improve...
- Jun 30, 2010By Adrian Gonzalez, Lead Researcher at MIX MIX Data Brief No. 6: Obtaining funding for growth can be an important challenge for many microfinance institutions (MFIs), particularly for small and young MFIs who are starting to navigate the ocean of...
- Jun 17, 2010By Adrian Gonzalez, Lead Researcher at MIX MIX Data Brief No. 5: The aggregate number of borrowers served by microfinance institutions (MFIs) reporting to MIX Market (www.mixmarket.org) grew 21 percent per year on average in the 2003-2008 period,...
- Jun 30, 2009MIX Data Brief No. 2: This paper explores the question of whether deposit mobilizing MFIs are really serving small depositors, and proposes a new indicator for depth of outreach of MFIs’ deposit mobilizing instruments. Two primary arguments...
- Sep 30, 2009MIX Data Brief 3: Does product composition matter for a microfinance institution’s performance? With data on the diverse Latin America microfinance market, this paper explores that very question. MIX started collecting data on MFI credit...
- Jun 18, 2010Esta presentación, preparada por Adrián González de MIX para el BID, trata del contenido del Data Brief No. 5: Is Microfinance Growing too Fast? (¿Están las microfinanzas creciendo demasiado rápido?).
- Jun 17, 2010This spreadsheet contains data from 821 MFIs reporting data to Microfinance Information Exchange, Inc. (MIX) for 2000-2008. These data are the basis of analysis for MIX Data Brief No. 5, Is Microfinance Growing Too Fast?, by Adrian Gonzalez.
- Mar 16, 2010MIX Data Brief No. 4: The interest rates charged on microcredit is one of the most-discussed issues in microfinance, capturing the attention of both the media and industry analysts alike. As the financial crisis brings global attention back to lending...
- Mar 3, 2010This case study, developed by MIX and published by XBRL International, outlines the background, goals, implementation, and results of using XBRL for data collection from microfinance institutions. The goal of this project is a genuinely global data...
- Mar 5, 2010This spreadsheet contains data from 1,008 MFIs reporting data to Microfinance Information Exchange, Inc. (MIX) for 2008. These data are the basis of analysis for MIX Data Brief No. 4, Analyzing Microcredit Interest Rates: A Review of the Methodology...
- Nov 26, 2007The Discussion Paper, authored by MIX research analyst Adrian Gonzalez, is the first comprehensive study of its kind to examine the resiliency of microfinance insitutions to national macroeconomic events. The sample size of 639 microfinance institutions...
- Dec 4, 2008MIX combines data from three sources for detailed information on the number of microfinance institutions and the number of clients that exist in developing markets. In discussing the market penetration of microfinance institutions throughout the...
- Jun 2, 2008This data set complements the article published in the MicroBanking Bulletin 16, Spring 2008 titled, “International Comparisons of Loan Balances per Borrower.” This data set shows a comparison of loan balances per borrower based on two...
