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- Oct, 2011Les acteurs du secteur de la microfinance reconnaissent aujourd’hui qu'il n'est plus possible de considérer comme acquis l'impact social de la microfinance. La frontière entre la microfinance et la finance traditionnelle ne cesse de s’éroder et rester...
- Sep, 2011Los participantes en la industria de microfinanzas reconocen cada vez más que los beneficios sociales de las microfinanzas no pueden darse por sentado. Al continuar erosionándose el límite entre microfinanzas y finanzas tradicionales, mantenerse...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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?).
- 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...
- Feb 17, 2010The 2009 Social Performance Reporting Award, sponsored by CGAP, DELL Foundation and Ford Foundation and powered by MIX, recognizes transparency in social performance reporting, not social performance achievements. The Award features three levels of...
- Dec 1, 2009As the world watched the financial crisis and ensuing economic slowdown unfold in developed economies in late 2008, observers of microfinance braced themselves for the fallout on microfinance institutions, some of which began to appear by the end of 2008...
- Dec 1, 2009Is social performance profitable? The question may be cynical, but nevertheless relevant for microfinance to keep its “promise” of being an economically viable development tool (Morduch, 1999). For years, the sector focused on sustainability and growth,...
