The microfinance sector is an important ingredient in the process of global integration of the financial markets. The rapid development of the microfinance sector in many developing countries motivated prominent donors to develop systems for standardised and comparable reporting of financial and...

Measuring the performance of providers of financial services to poor individuals and to micro and small enterprises is a relatively new phenomenon, and the paper discusses the reasons for this. It is argued that using traditional financial ratios to assess performance of microfinance...

Microfinance in developing countries is a collection of studies by leading researchers in the field of microfinance. It discusses key issues that the rapidly growing microfinance industry currently faces, and offers interesting views and analysis of topical matters concerning the microfinance realm.