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- 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-...
- 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...
- Dec 31, 2009This brief report gives a great overview of MFI performance for calendar year 2008 and shows the begining of the impact of the global economic slowdown on the microfinance sector throughout the developing world. The report includes outreach, efficiency...
- Dec 19, 2009In 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...
- 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 types for the...
- 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 can be made...
- May 1, 2009Approximately 1 billion people — or nearly one-sixth of the world’s population — subsist on less than USD 1 per day. Of this population, 162 million survive on less than USD 0.50 per day. According to the International Food Policy Research Institute,...
- 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...
- May 1, 2008Loan sizes are an important metric for microfinance, but how large are microfinance loans, really? Many analysts base their very definitions of microfinance on loan size. Publications such as this one use it to group and compare microfinance institutions...
- Sep 1, 2007Microfinance is a high touch, high cost business. As a business model, its greatest challenge is to lower operating costs in order to reduce the cost of service borne by borrowers. An analysis of the cost structure of profitable MFIs (microfinance...
- Sep 1, 2007MIX’s 2006 benchmarking results show another hallmark year of growth for microfinance. MFIs expanded outreach at a continued, measured pace, while commercial borrowings to MFIs grew nearly twice as fast, at over 60 percent. Yet, despite growth and...
- Sep 1, 2007Never has the issue of access to finance been higher on the agenda of international organisations and national government agencies. Never has there been such a flow of funding to microfinance organisations. And never has one witnessed such a string of...
- May 1, 2007BRAC, the largest national Non-Government Organization (NGO) in the world serving more than 5 million mostly women members in Bangladesh, is one of the most respected microfinance institutions (MFIs) globally. It has branches in all 64 districts of the...
- Feb 1, 2007This thirteenth issue of the Microfinance Capital Markets Update provides news as of February 2007. The microfinance capital markets update is produced and edited by CGAP and the Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX). The newsletter is the only...
- Dec 1, 2006This twelveth issue of the Microfinance Capital Markets Update provides news as of December 2006. The microfinance capital markets update is produced and edited by CGAP and the Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX). The newsletter is the only...
