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- Mar 3, 2010This case study, developed by MIX and published by XBRL International, outlines the background, goals, implementation, and results of using XBRL for data collection from microfinance institutions. The goal of this project is a genuinely global data...
- Mar 5, 2010This spreadsheet contains data from 1,008 MFIs reporting data to Microfinance Information Exchange, Inc. (MIX) for 2008. These data are the basis of analysis for MIX Data Brief No. 4, Analyzing Microcredit Interest Rates: A Review of the Methodology...
- MIX 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...
- Feb 23, 2010For the third year running, MIX presents its Composite Ranking of the performance of microfinance institutions. Based on data published on MIX Market, the MIX Global 100 Composite Ranking attempts to provide a composite picture of MFI performance using a...
- The 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...
- By 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...
- Microfinance 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...
- The 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?...
- In 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...
- Approximately 1 billion people — or nearly one-sixth of the world’s population — subsist on less than USD 1 per day. Of this population, 162 million survive on less than USD 0.50 per day. According to the International Food Policy Research Institute,...
- As the inflation rate in Pakistan crosses 25 percent per annum — the highest in almost three decades — there is justifiable concern that the Pakistani citizen, particularly the poor, will suffer the most and will bear the severest brunt of this economic...
- 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 15, 2009This data set is the first to reflect the impact of the global economic slowdown on microfinance institutions. The 2008 MFI Benchmarks covers financial and performance data from nearly 1100 microfinance institutions (MFIs) throughout the developing...
- Jan 14, 2010