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practices on the topic of regulation and supervision of microfinance operations executed by deposit-taking financial …, as well as the Basel II principles issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. to microfinance institutions. In … well as for the microfinance institutions. The recommendations aim to facilitate a harmonious development of microfinance. …
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The primary objective of this document is to put forward standard definitions for the selected financial terms, and suggest a standard method of calculating certain financial ratios. This section defines certain key financial accounts used by MFIs. The definitions are provided in two main...
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This document discusses the basics on microfranchising. It reviews the concept and key elements, lessons learned from other regions, including the Grameen Bank. Finally, an agenda for the development of FOMIN microfranchising support is presented.
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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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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funds to finance microfinance. An IDB study of second-tier financing programs for microfinance sheds light on the promise …
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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. …
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This issue of MicroEnterprise Americas explores the various issues and challenges of extending economic opportunities to all. The Special Section of the magazine focuses on access to markets, which most microenterprises characterize as the single most important challenge they face after access...
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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. …
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