Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been successful in providing credit to millions of low-income borrowers in groups … examine microfinance interest rates and their determinants in order to understand how these rates might be lowered. Using high …

Using borrower-level data from FINCA, one of Peru's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs), this paper evaluates the …

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. …

This working paper assesses different approaches to microfinance delivery across Asian and Latin America. Three … modalities of delivery of microfinance are discussed: the Credit Union Approach, the NGO Approach, and the Banking Approach. Also … addressed is the current relatively undeveloped microfinance sector in PRC and what might be learnt from experiences elsewhere …

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. …

. The first one examines the evolution of specialized rating for microfinance institutions (MFIs). In the past five years … series of questions on the topic: Why has specialized rating for microfinance come to be? How has it developed to where it is …