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- 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...
- Dec 1, 2009MIX Global 100 Composite: Rankings of MFIs is an anlysis and ranking of MFI performance based on data from calendar year 2008. This Excel table allows you to see how your MFI compares to #1 ranked MBK Ventura and the other 711 MFIs whose...
- Sep 1, 2008To be sustainable businesses, microfinance institutions (MFIs) must cover all expenses with their own revenues. If revenues are more than expenses, the MFI is sustainable and can keep operating without the need for subsidies; if revenues are less than...
- Oct 20, 2009This presentation, by Micol Pistelli (Manager of Social Performance at MIX), was part of Workshop 8 at the IDB Foromic 2009 in Arequipa, Peru: Advances in measuring social performance - why does it matter? To read the executive summary of the...
- Oct 20, 2009The executive summary of the presentation "Social Performance Standards" given by Micol Pistelli as part of a workshop on social performance measurement at the IDB Foromic 2009 in Arequipa, Peru.To see the presentation in PowerPoint, click here.
- Oct 9, 2009The Latin America and Caribbean Benchmarks 2008 compares performance indicators for microfinance institutions in the region. The benchmarks are based on performance data from 2008 - the most recent data available - and cover 332 MFIs across 18 countries....
- 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...
- July 2009The newest issue of the MicroBanking Bulletin focuses on the global economic crisis and the impact it is having on microfinance, its clients and other aspects of the industry. This issue includes feature articles from Pakistan Microfinance Network and...
- 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 7, 2009The MIX Trend Lines 2005 - 2007 MFI Benchmarks use a peer group framework that draws on microfinance institutions that have reported for at least three consecutive years to MIX.This spreadsheet contains benchmark data on the performance of microfinance...
- May 1, 2009The Bulletin Tables are designed to present performance benchmarks against which managers and directors of microfinance institutions can compare their institution’s performance with that of similar institution. Since the microfinance industry consists of...
- May 1, 2009By the third quarter of 2008, as the financial crisis was consuming large investment and commercial banks and the flow of credit dried up, the microfinance community asked itself how the crisis in the broader economy would impact microfinance...
- May 1, 2009Microfinance practitioners have often sought a single, easy-to-understand indicator for evaluating the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs). To date, the most commonly used indicator has been financial self-sufficiency (FSS). However, FSS is...
- May 1, 2009The global crisis is spreading quickly in emerging markets but little is known about its impact on the microfinance sector: Which regions are most affected and why? Are microfinance institutions (MFIs) resilient to this unprecedented economic downturn?...
- May 1, 2009In the last ten years, conventional wisdom has held that microfinance as an asset class enjoys a striking lack of correlation with trends in the global economy. The informality of most of the microbusinesses feeding into the microfinance industry was...
