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- Apr, 2012Microfinance reporting has something to learn from how university applications and tax returns are filed. Every year in the United States, millions of high school students complete lengthy university admissions applications hoping to secure one or...
- Aug, 2011To better understand the burden that external reporting places on MFIs, MIX conducted a research study focused on Sub-Saharan Africa. The study included interviews with MFI executives, an online survey, and narratives collected from MFI staff involved in...
- Aug, 2011In 2006, the Central Bank of Nigeria began to transform a network of several hundred community banks into ‘microfinance banks’ (MFB). Since that time, the registration rolls have ballooned, now to over 900 institutions, albeit not without...
- Mar, 2011The just-announced transition of the software listings from CGAP to the MIX Market site gives us a good opportunity to explore one way in which integrating technology providers and MFI data can open up new information for microfinance practitioners....
- Feb 26, 2007Completing and submiting this excel based questionnaire allows MFIs to participate in the MIX Benchmarks. MFIs that participate in the MBBs are eligible to receive free, confidential, MIX Customized Performance Reports (CPRs), which allow MFI managers...
- May 1, 2007Scientists – and, increasingly, politicians, business leaders, and the general public – are convinced that global climate change is a crisis that will touch practically every other human enterprise. Climate change presents such a threat to all nations...