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- Feb, 20122005 marked a turning point for the microfinance industry. The industry burst into public consciousness – the year of microcredit. One year later, one of its brightest lights was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet, in a number of countries, the first...
- Nov, 2011Why is debt financing important for microfinance? Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have three main sources to fund their growth: debt, equity, and deposits (for those allowed to mobilize deposits). In this review, we will focus on the role of debt...
- May, 2011Le rapport Afrique subsaharienne 2010 Benchmarking et Analyse du secteur de la Microfinance présente les dernières tendances régionales et les récents développements dans la région à travers l’analyse d’un échantillon de 181 IMF couvrant 41 pays. Le...
- Mar, 2011Risk is at the heart of financial intermediation, and microfinance is no exception. Since 2008, considerable attention has been focused on the effects of the financial crisis on microfinance institutions (MFIs). However, most discussions on the...
- Mar, 2011Recent commentary on microfinance has focused on the idea that there is a big problem with excess commercialization driven by greedy for-profit microcredit lenders. Perceptions of uncontrolled growth and excessive interest charged to vulnerable low...
- 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, 2011Dans un récent article du New York Times, Muhammad Yunus a proposé que les gouvernements introduisent des lois visant à limiter les taux d'intérêt de 10 à 15 points de plus par rapport au coût du financement pour les institutions de micro-crédit. ...
- 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...
- Jan, 2011En un artículo de opinión reciente del New York Times, Muhammad Yunus propuso regulaciones gubernamentales para poner en vigencia techos a las tasas de interés de 10 - 15 puntos porcentuales sobre el costo de fondos para instituciones de microfinanzas (...
- Jan, 2011In a recent New York Times opinion piece, Muhammad Yunus proposed government regulation to enforce an interest rate cap of 10 - 15 percentage points over cost of funds for microfinance institutions. The intention of this cap is to prevent profit-...
- Jan, 2011The following figures are updated versions of those published in “Analyzing Microcredit Interest Rates, A Review of the Methodology Proposed by Mohamed Yunus”, MIX Data Brief, No. 4.All updated figures below are almost identical to the ones...
- 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, 2010El presente informe incluye un análisis de los resultados de las IMF ecuatorianas agrupadas simultáneamente por tipo de crédito y autosuficiencia financiera al cierre del ejercicio 2009. De esta forma, se busca explorar los factores que caracterizaron a...
- 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?).
