Over the past three decades, the global microfinance industry has witnessed phenomenal growth in terms of the number of … of control fraud to the global microfinance industry reveals a high degree of overlap between the common characteristics … of control frauds and the characteristics of the microfinance industry and suggests that the sector provides a …

This report investigates the poverty outreach of 14 microfinance institutions (MFI) across six Latin American countries …-indebtedness. Increased banking saturation is changing the landscape of microfinance, pushing MFIs who do not explicitly target the poor to …

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are often seen by aid practitioners as a manifestly effective means of improving the … have been carried out more “rigorously”, but in both regions the evidence that microfinance is reaching the core poor is …