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Jan 24, 2014

NpM report on tax ethics in microfinance practice

NpM, Platform for Inclusive Finance is a Dutch membership organisation focusing on the promotion of inclusive finance. What the member...

Jan 17, 2014

Microfinance, debt and over-indebtedness: Juggling with money, Part I

This is part I of a two-part blog, summarizing some of the key findings of an edited volume that has just been released (Guérin I....

Jan 13, 2014

Microenterprise economics: High returns, low incomes

It’s a question that comes up at nearly dinner discussion of microfinance: why are the interest rates so high, and how can poor clients...

Dec 2, 2013

Interview with Mila Bunker, MCPI on the effects of the typhoon on MFIs and their clients

During European Microfinance Week Bart De Bruyne took the opportunity to interview Mila Bunker, MCPI (Microfinance Council of the...

Nov 25, 2013

MIMOSA estimating market saturation

Interview by B. De Bruyne with E. Javoy (Planet Rating) and D. Rozas. Full disclosure: in addition to being co-author of MIMOSA, Daniel...

Nov 25, 2013

Interview: Finance small holder farming

During European Microfinance Week the e-MFP Rural Outreach & Innovation Action Group gathered. Afterwards Bart De Bruyne interviewed...

Nov 15, 2013

Green microfinance - interview with Geert Jan Schuite

Question (Bart De Bruyne): Do MFIs start paying enough attention to ecological aspects and what can e-MFP do? Answer Geert Jan Schuite:...

Nov 14, 2013

Historical Perspectives in Microfinance

Author: Sam Mendelson. We think of microfinance as being ‘invented’ in Bangladesh in the 1970s. To be sure, Grameen was the genesis of...

Nov 14, 2013

Interview with Chuck Waterfield, CEO of MF Transparency

CHUCK WATERFIELD CEO, MF TRANSPARENCY Q: We were here a year ago talking about the Responsible Finance agenda, the growth in recognition...

Nov 8, 2013

What is microfinance for ?

I am not a regular blogger (does the noun exist ? It sounds slightly inappropriate) but I have succumbed to an invitation to share some...

Nov 7, 2013

Microfinance in Cambodia: Investors’ Playground or Force for Financial Inclusion?

Author: Sanjay Sinha. Introduction to the social investors’ “playground” Relatively light and supportive regulation of microfinance,...

Oct 28, 2013

Are MFIs overstating savings outreach?

Since the microfinance sector broadened its focus from loans to financial inclusion, savings have become a major focus. And rightly so –...

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