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- Aug 4, 2010By Adrian Gonzalez, Lead Researcher at MIX MIX 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...
- Jun 30, 2010By Adrian Gonzalez, Lead Researcher at MIX MIX Data Brief No. 6: Obtaining funding for growth can be an important challenge for many microfinance institutions (MFIs), particularly for small and young MFIs who are starting to navigate the ocean of...
- Jun 17, 2010By Adrian Gonzalez, Lead Researcher at MIX MIX Data Brief No. 5: The aggregate number of borrowers served by microfinance institutions (MFIs) reporting to MIX Market (www.mixmarket.org) grew 21 percent per year on average in the 2003-2008 period,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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?).
- Jun 17, 2010This spreadsheet contains data from 821 MFIs reporting data to Microfinance Information Exchange, Inc. (MIX) for 2000-2008. These data are the basis of analysis for MIX Data Brief No. 5, Is Microfinance Growing Too Fast?, by Adrian Gonzalez.
- 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...
- Recent developments in the financing of microfinance have focused on the underlying microfinance portfolio. In the case of the BRAC securitization described in detail in this issue of the MicroBanking Bulletin, this can mean the packaging and selling of...
- Talk of commercialization, once the reserve of analysis of Latin American microfinance, has captured the global microfinance news headlines over the last few years. Greenfield microfinance banks have opened their doors and grown in waves, whether as...
- There are many common measures for efficiency, either looking at cost per unit such as cost per borrower or cost per loan, or looking at cost per dollar lent: operating expenses over loan portfolio, personnel expenses over loan portfolio or over total...
- Those of us working in development know to be wary of the latest fads. This has naturally led many of us to be cautious of the phrase “evidence-based aid”, popularised most recently by the MIT-based Poverty Action Lab. Evidence-based aid, spearheaded by...
- The significant rise of the microfinance industry over the past 30 years has produced an ever-increasing number of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the developing world. Over the past ten years the industry has been supported largely by development...
