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Microfinance self-regulation in India becomes official
Last week, MFIN, received official recognition from the Reserve Bank of India as a Self-Regulatory Organization in charge of regulating...
Jun 24, 2014


Microfinance in Mexico: Beyond the Brink
Author: Daniel Rozas. You know the game of musical chairs: players sit on chairs arranged in a circle. The music starts and the players...
Jun 19, 2014
Mexico: Deja vu all over again?
Or the more things change, the more they stay the same... Sometimes it seems as though there is no shortage of proverbs when it comes to...
May 30, 2014
Microfinance, Regulation, and MIMOSA
Recently, I was reading the Economist and came across Charles Keating's obituary. That name means little to most readers outside the US,...
May 22, 2014
Measuring success in microfinance
A recent article by the Economist hails a study in Bangladesh by Shahidur Khandker as "the biggest study so far finds that microcredit...
Apr 25, 2014
Microfinance and the Environment: Identifying MFIs that set an example
As the microfinance industry has grown, there has been an increasing focus on the non-financial impacts that microfinance institutions...
Apr 11, 2014


Microfinance and savings outreach: What are we measuring?
For years, credit was the driving force behind microfinance. But times have changed. Instead of credit, we now speak of financial...
Mar 20, 2014
e-MFP’s European Microfinance Week survey
Every November, the European Microfinance Week (EMW) brings together a high-level group of decision-makers, opinion-leaders and...
Feb 26, 2014


Microfinance, debt and over-indebtedness: Juggling with money, Part II
See part-one of the blog here. In our previous post, we addressed our first two findings: 1) over-indebtedness stems not only from...
Feb 17, 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 24, 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 17, 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...
Jan 13, 2014
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