Countries & RegionsMicrofinance in Morocco:
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May 25, 2012 - 7:57am
from MicroCapital
The World Savings Bank Institute (WSBI), a Switzerland-based association representing savings and retail banks with EUR 4.3 trillion (USD 5.4 trillion) in assets, announced a new plan at the 23rd WSBI Congress in Marrakech, Morocco, whereby its members will review their products, tailoring some to the specific needs of the most vulnerable potential customers.
For example, WSBI member may use technology services to reach unserved and isolated groups. WSBI members will also ...
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May 24, 2012 - 6:00am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
As the presidential election process gets under way in Egypt this week, an equally important debate has been going on in London about new ways to bring about the country's economic development.Together with Tunisia, Egypt has been chosen as a new area of operation for the multilateral European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ...
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May 23, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
“Diamonds No Longer Forever;” by Scott Gaul; published by Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX); April 2012; available at: http://www.themix.org/publications/microbanking-bulletin/2012/04/diamonds-no-longer-forever
This publication announces a change in ...
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May 21, 2012 - 8:47pm
from MicroCapital
MicroRate, a US-based microfinance rating agency, with funding from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Fund Labeling Agency (LuxFLAG), a non-profit fund certification agency based in Luxembourg, has launched the full version of Luminis, an online analytical platform on microfinance funds. The beta version was launched in January 2012.
Luminis offers analysis based on performance, risk, social and management (PRSM) data. The web-based platform enables investors to ...
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May 21, 2012 - 11:46am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
In a tiny classroom at the Maison de Citoyenneté support centre for the education of rural girls and women in Beni Zuli, an isolated village in Zagora, deep in south-eastern Morocco's Draa Valley, Fatima Kadmire is describing how learning to read and write is transforming her life."The best thing is that I can now dial ...
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May 12, 2012 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
“The Financial Behavior of Rural Residents: Findings from Five Latin American Countries;” by Jacqueline Urquizo; published by Accion; March 2012; 45 pages; available at:
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May 9, 2012 - 3:11pm
from MicroCapital
UK-based financial services company HSBC (formerly known as the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), Dubai-based microfinance investor Grameen-Jameel and Bankers without Borders (BwB), a program of the US-based Grameen Foundation, are partnering to provide financial and technical expertise to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Middle East and North Africa. Starting in 2012, HSBC staff based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be deployed to provide technical assistance to ...
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April 30, 2012 - 5:05am
from MicroCapital
Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX), a US-based nonprofit provider of data and analysis on microfinance institutions (MFIs), funders, networks and service providers dedicated to serving the financial needs of low-income clients, has released the names of 87 MFIs that have earned its winners of the Social Performance Reporting Award. The awards are distinguished by silver, gold and platinum winners.
The awards are intended to promote transparency regarding MFIs’ social ...
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April 25, 2012 - 1:42pm
from MicroCapital
Grameen-Jameel Microfinance Limited, a joint venture of the US-based Grameen Foundation and the UK-based Abdul Latif Jameel Foundation, reportedly has provided a loan of USD 1.5 million to the Jordan Micro Credit Company (Tamweelcom), a Jordan-based microfinance institution (MFI). The investment is expected to fund loans to approximately 4,000 micro-entrepreneurs inJordanover an unspecified timeframe. Grameen-Jameel made its first loan to Tamweelcom in 2008 in the amount of USD ...
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April 19, 2012 - 10:03pm
from Private Sector Development Blog
This post is part of our Closing the Gap: Financial Inclusion blog series, which shares the views of selected experts and practitioners on different financial inclusion topics.
WSBI works with savings banks in the developing world to increase the number of savings accounts for the poor. The ten participating banks are KPOSB Kenya, LPB Lesotho, PBU Uganda, SAPB South ...
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April 11, 2012 - 7:12am
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
The most rapidly obsolescing part of my book, Due Diligence, is chapter 6, which reviews the statistical evidence of the impact of microfinance on poverty. Since I put the text to bed, working papers have appeared that test microcredit in
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March 26, 2012 - 11:00am
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
*Yet Another Randomized Trial of Microcredit
The latest randomized study of the impact of microcredit has popped up on the web. Snarky blog post title notwithstanding, I very much welcome having yet another randomized test of microcredit—by my count, the fifth—because only after we test in a variety of forms and circumstances can we generalize with (cautious) confidence. We have been ...
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March 21, 2012 - 9:23pm
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
One contention in my work is that the new, experimental microfinance impact studies are more reliable than the older, non-experimental ones, not to the individual success stories on microfinance web sites.
A working paper by Ram Rajbanshi, Meng Huang, and Bruce Wydick speaks to this thesis in an interesting way. To whet your appetite for my pedagogic ...
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March 16, 2012 - 9:39am
from Global development: Poverty matters blog | guardian.co.uk
I'm in Marseille and I'm staring at a life-sized model of an abstract slum, stop number two on an official tour of the World Water Forum's "village of solutions".The guide calls it "a vision of a generalised slum". The designers appear to have thought of everything. There ...
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March 15, 2012 - 1:00pm
from David Roodman's Microfinance Open Book Blog
Larry Reed of the Microcredit Summit Campaign has a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about my piece last ...
MIX Recent Features
March 13, 2012 - 1:22pm
from MIX Recent Features
Learn about the performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Middle East and North Africa in 2010 and 2011 (for countries impacted by the Arab Spring). The ...
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March 8, 2012 - 4:36pm
from Center for Financial Inclusion Blog
> Posted by Rosita Najmi, Financial Inclusion Practice, World Bank
“Congratulations,” the young man said, as I entered a favela in Rio. Puzzled, I raised my eyebrows and shrugged my shoulders. “He was congratulating you because you’re a woman.” said the young woman accompanying me on a UNDP assignment. My eyebrows migrated even further north. With a smile, she clarified, “Today is International Day of the Woman.” As we walked on, I turned and yelled over my shoulder ...
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March 5, 2012 - 11:00am
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
CGAP’s Focus Note outlines roles that Governments can play in promoting the development of inclusive financial ecosystems, including through rules, infrastructure and transaction volumes. National Financial Inclusion Strategies provide an effective framework for the successful implementation of these roles.
National Financial Inclusion Strategies, together with clear mandates, can accelerate progress towards ...
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February 29, 2012 - 9:58am
from Morocco Microfinance Blog
Microfinance Focus, February 28, 2012: Microfinance rating agency MicroRate and Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) have today co-published a study ‘The Tipping Point: Over-indebtedness and investment in microfinance’, which examines whether investments ...
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February 27, 2012 - 3:48pm
from Development Impact - News, views, methods, and insights from the world of impact evaluation
What are the best things ordinary people living in rich countries can do to help poor people living in developing countries? This is the question the editors of Christianity Today assigned to me for a special issue this month on world poverty. It is a question many people like my parents worry about, people who would like to give ...
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