of microfinance institutions - whereas it used to be an industry where nongovernmental organizations dominated … microfinance, it is now rapidly evolving into a subsector of the financial services industry. …

between microfinance institutions and private international investors. This article is written by Robert Pouliot of RCP … & Partners, a Swiss-based fiduciary agency based in Switzerland and Germany. The second article addresses microfinance regulation …

edition of Microfinance Americas 2009, The Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and … the Microfinance Information Exchange, Inc. (MIX) present the Annual Ranking of the Latin America and the Caribbean …'s leading microfinance institutions. The report ranks MFIs using a methodology which is comprised of three different pillars …

funds to finance microfinance. An IDB study of second-tier financing programs for microfinance sheds light on the promise …

microfinance in Latin America and the Caribbean. This article takes a first step in addressing the lack of timely, objective and … several benchmark indicators relevant to the microfinance industry. …

Americas is microfinance as far advanced as in Bolivia. Using the examples of BancoSol, Caja los Andes and FIE -Bolivia's three … largest microfinance institutions- this article describes challenges microfinance has faced from economic recession and …. Finally, the article speculates where Bolivian microfinance, and the microfinance industry in general, may be headed. …

author argues that when properly designed, an ABC system can highlight a wide range of issues within a microfinance …

.Abstract: The second issue of the Microenterprise Development Review offers two main articles: "Microfinance Guarantees: Is There … Another Model?" and "Regulating Microfinance." The first article discusses microfinance guarantees, where the lender's risk is … applicability of some central supervisory instruments for the regulation of microfinance. …