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- Apr, 2012Executive Summary Until recently, corporate governance has been a subject of secondary interest in analyses of the microfinance industry. However, the recent economic downturn in some markets and the risk exposure of some microfinance institutions (MFIs...
- 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...
- 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. ...
- 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...
- Jun 30, 2010MIX 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 funding alternatives and have little knowledge of...
- 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...
- May 1, 2009As the inflation rate in Pakistan crosses 25 percent per annum — the highest in almost three decades — there is justifiable concern that the Pakistani citizen, particularly the poor, will suffer the most and will bear the severest brunt of this economic...
- 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...
- Sep 1, 2007The banks have recently redesigned their organizational structure to support a strategy that focuses on addressing the SME segment. About half of the banks have organizational set ups which are less than two years old (while the SME models for 10 of the...
- Sep 1, 2007Microfinance has started a positive social and economic movement in many developing countries. Considerable numbers of the world’s poor now have access to financial services, giving them opportunities to start building businesses and focusing on a better...
- May 1, 2007Those 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...
- May 1, 2007The 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...
