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MicroBanking Bulletin

Measuring the Social Mission of Microfinance

Date: 
December 2012
Author(s): 
Micol Pistelli

The microfinance industry needs reliable indicators to effectively determine whether MFIs are acting in a socially responsible manner and achieving their development goals.  MIX and the SPTF have developed a series of indicators that MFIs have been reporting to MIX since 2009. In this presentation you will learn:

MIX Microfinance World

2012 Microfinance Americas: The Top 100

Date: 
October 2012
Author(s): 
Renso Martínez Ramírez in collaberation with the Multilateral Investment Fund

MIX and the Multilateral Investment Fund are pleased to present the 2012 edition of “Microfinance Americas: The Top 100,” our annual snapshot of 100 leading microfinance institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. As in the last three years, the rankings have been determined on the basis of the institutions’ performance in three key areas: outreach, efficiency and transparency.

MIX Microfinance World

2012 Microfinanzas Américas: Las 100 mejores

Date: 
October 2012
Author(s): 
Renso Martínez Ramírez in collaberation with the Multilateral Investment Fund

MIX y el Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones se complacen en presentar la edición de 2012 de “Microfinanzas Américas: Las 100 mejores”, nuestra instantánea anual de las 100 instituciones microfinancieras más destacadas de América Latina y el Caribe. Al igual que los tres últimos años, los rankings han sido elaborados con base en el desempeño de las instituciones en tres áreas críticas: alcance, eficiencia y transparencia.

MIX Microfinance World

Latin American and the Caribbean Microfinance Market Trends 2006-2011

Date: 
June 2012
Author(s): 
Renso Martínez Ramírez

MIX presents the “2006-2011 Trends for the Latin American and the Caribbean microfinance market”, an update to the trend report published in August 2011. This report shows the region’s performance based on a variety of indicators in categories such as outreach, growth, credit types, financial structure, and profitability and risk.

MIX Microfinance World

Tendencias 2006–2011 del mercado microfinanciero en América Latina y el Caribe

Date: 
June 2012
Author(s): 
Renso Martínez Ramírez

MIX presenta las “Tendencias 2006-2011 del mercado Microfinanciero en América Latina y el Caribe”, una actualización del reporte de tendencia publicado en mayo de 2011.

MIX Microfinance World

Mapping the financial sector in Rwanda

Date: 
July 2012
Author(s): 
Audrey Linthorst

Rwanda is still very much a nation working towards recovery. In 2000, nearly two-thirds of the population was living below the national poverty line. Five years later, poverty rates remained at nearly 60 percent. However, Rwanda has experienced positive and rapid growth since then, with poverty rates having dropped to 45 percent and still decreasing.

Figure 1: Declining poverty rates in Rwanda

MIX Microfinance World

Mapping the financial sector in Kenya

Date: 
June 2012
Author(s): 
Scott Gaul

Kenya has been among the most frequently-cited countries in discussions of financial inclusion, especially surrounding the rise of mobile money. Given this rapid change, what types of financial services does someone in Kenya have access to today? Is there equal access throughout the country or is it concentrated or missing in certain areas? The Kenya Map of Financial Inclusion (Fig.

MicroBanking Bulletin

Measuring Governance in Microfinance: Initial Findings from a Pilot Project

Date: 
April 2012
Author(s): 
Micol Pistelli, Stephanie Geake, with Adrian Gonzalez

Executive Summary

Until recently, corporate governance has been a subject of secondary interest in analyses of the microfinance industry. However, the recent economic downturn in some markets and the risk exposure of some microfinance institutions (MFIs) to bailout[1]  has led many in the industry to identify good governance as the primary differentiating factor between those institutions that overcome crises and those that do not[2].

MIX Microfinance World

Mapping the financial sector in South Africa

Date: 
May 2012
Author(s): 
Scott Gaul

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p>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.

MicroBanking Bulletin

Diamonds no longer forever

Date: 
April 2012
Author(s): 
Scott Gaul

Part of the mission of MIX is to promote transparency for microfinance. At a high level, transparency has increased over the past several years - we've gone from 28 institutions providing confidential information to the first MicroBanking Bulletin in 1997, to 162 with public information on MIX Market in 2003, to over 2000 with profiles and data now on the MIX Market site.