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  • May, 2012
    The South Africa Map of Financial Inclusion maps data on more than 40,000 points of service in South Africa, covering a wider range of providers than in any other survey of the market. The data goes beyond commercial banks and MFIs to cover pawnshops,...
  • Feb, 2012
    Learn about institutions providing microfinance and other financial services to the poor in Africa in 2011. The following graphs and tables: Provide an overview of all known providers in Africa, with additional data and trends on the major...
  • Jan, 2012
    In August 2011, MIX launched a map that displays the location of 819 microfinance banks currently licensed to operate in Nigeria. The map gives a basic view on the market supply of microfinance services, in the context of some key factors such as mobile...
  • Dec, 2011
    Comme indiqué plus haut, les données du panorama nous ont permis d’obtenir les chiffres globaux suivants : 71 millions de clients, 44 millions de comptes de dépôt, 20 millions de prêts, pour 23 000 fournisseurs de 45 pays. Si à présent nous...
  • Dec, 2011
    Le but de cette section est de décrire plus en détail la méthodologie de notre enquête, et de présenter quelques conclusions tirées du processus de constitution de la base de données.         Nous avons d’abord...
  • Dec, 2011
     Au cours des années passées, de nombreux travaux ont été menés pour tenter d’estimer l’offre en termes d’accès financier global. Comme la méthodologie utilisée pour notre panorama des données en Afrique s’appuie sur ces tentatives, mais s’en...
  • Dec, 2011
    Cartographier l’offre de services financiers aux pauvres en Afrique Pour comprendre l’accès des pauvres aux services financiers, une première étape est de mesurer cet accès. Des informations étendues sur l’offre permettent de répondre à des questions de...
  • Sep, 2011
    The landscape data yields the following big numbers as outlined earlier: 71 million clients, 44 million deposit accounts, 20 million loans, across 23,000 providers in 45 countries. If we begin to break this data out by products and provider types, we can...
  • Sep, 2011
    In this section, we describe the methodology of our research in more detail, along with some conclusions based on the process behind constructing this data set.We began by compiling data from several different sources, including local and international...
  • Sep, 2011
     In years past, there have been several attempted efforts to develop supply-side estimates of global financial access. As the methodology behind the Africa landscape data both builds on and differs from these efforts in some respects, we will review...
  • Sep, 2011
    A first step in understanding access to financial services for the poor is measuring this access. Broad-based supply information helps answer basic ‘who / what / when / where / how’ questions in regards to these services. To better understand the...
  • Aug, 2011
    In 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...
  • May, 2011
    The 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...
  • Mar, 2011
    The 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....
  • Mar, 2011
    Since 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...