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- Jan, 2012Learn about the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2011. The following graphs and tables: illustrate the rural dimension of loan portfolio across the region describe of the concentration and...
- Jul, 2011Microfinance industry stakeholders increasingly recognize that the social benefits of microfinance cannot be taken for granted. As the boundary between microfinance and traditional finance continues to erode, remaining true to microfinance’s mission can...
- May, 2011How can we define responsible financial performance? This is part three of a four-part series covering our current state of knowledge about the relationship between key financial and social performance indicators, produced as a prelude to the...
- May, 2011How can we define responsible financial performance? This is part two of a four-part series covering our current state of knowledge about the relationship between key financial and social performance indicators, produced as a prelude to the...
- May, 2011How can we define responsible financial performance? This is part one of a four-part series covering our current state of knowledge about the relationship between key financial and social performance indicators, produced as a prelude to the annual...
- May, 2011The Sub-Saharan Africa Microfinance Analysis and Benchmarking Report 2010 presents the latest regional trends and recent developments throughout the region based on a sample of 181 MFIs and spanning 41 countries. The report begins with an overview...
- Apr, 2011In the past week, both David Roodman and MFTransparency have posted on the relationship between yields and APRs for microfinance institutions. We are happy to see the dialogue deepen on what we really know about what MFIs charge their clients. Both posts...
- Mar, 2011How much of an effect did the global economic and financial crisis have on the microfinance sector in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA)? Written in partnership with CGAP, the 2010 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Microfinance Analysis and Benchmarking...
- Mar, 2011The 2010 Arab Benchmarking Report presents the latest regional trends based on a sample of 37 MFIs from 7 countries (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and Yemen) as well as the most recent developments based on 55 Arab MFIs from 9...
- 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...
- Jan, 2011The Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) released its annual report Microfinance Market Report for Latin America and the Caribbean 2010. The report is a comprehensive analysis on the state of the microfinance industry in the Latin America and...
- Aug 4, 2010MIX 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 portfolio quality, and become financially sustainable...
- Jul 30, 2010Since 2005, the global, industry-wide Social Performance Task Force (SPTF) has focused on developing ways to measure social performance in microfinance. One of the achievements of this initiative has been the creation of 22 social performance indicators...
- Jul, 2010A few months ago we presented a MIX Research Agenda to explore relationships between social and financial performance. Now we are ready to discuss the main results from this research, based on the social performance data collected for 2008. When...
- May, 2010MFIs seek to provide financial products and services to those excluded from formal financial systems. A variety of factors can contribute to individuals' exclusion, one of which is their geographic location. In this post, we examine the geographic...
