The development objective of the Resilient and Accessible Microfinance (RAM) Project for Pakistan is to enhance access to microcredit and support resilience of the microfinance sector and its borrowers...
The Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Microfinance Organizations in the Kyrgyz Republic” dated July 23, 2002, No. 124 (Law) explicitly states that microfinance organizations must have social goals. Microfinance...
This study of Kenya RuraI Enterprise Program (KREP)provides many insights into the process of developing and refining the microfinance operations of a development organization from a non-governmental organization...
The development objective of Empowering Microfinance and Enterprises for Resilience and Growth Project for Afghanistan is to support the demand for and supply of finance for micro and small enterprises...
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in particular have a goal to provide accessible microfinance services to the population to contribute to poverty reduction, improved employment rate, development of entrepreneurship...
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is the latest in a series of crises that microfinance institutions (MFIs) all over the world have faced in recent decades, from the 2007 global financial crisis to the...
IFC’s Financial Institutions Group provides equity, quasi-equity, debt-financing, and structured finance products to a diverse range of financial institutions, including banks, microfinance institutions...
In 1997, just as this study was being completed, Albania began spiraling into a dramatic political and economic crisis triggered by the collapse of fraudulent pyramid schemes. Banks and public buildings...
The Cajas Municipales de Ahorro y Credito (CMAC) system of Peru stands out as one of the leaders in microfinance in Latin America in terms of scale, outreach, and availability of both lending and savings...
The Association for the Development of Enterprises (ADEMI) is the brainchild of a Dominican businessman, Camilo Lluberes. Conceived in late 1982 as a way of addressing the plight of urban poor by "democratising"...
The microfinance field involves the design, implementation, and performance of policies, programs, and services to strengthen the financial sector and build sustainable financial institutions that effectively...
Most people in developing countries lack access to formal financial services. After decades of experimentation in a multitude of credit projects, microfinance, a "new" field, emerged to respond to this...
Among Latin American countries, Colombia has been a pioneer in policies and programs for the informal and microenterprise sectors. This support is the result of the efforts of a group of Non-governmental...
This case study is a summary of a thorough evaluation of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) by the Operations and Evaluations Department of the World Bank in 1995. Although this evaluation was...
This essay raises questions about the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in microfinance. Based on research conducted by the World Bank under the Sustainable Banking with the Poor (SBP) project...
El banco Caja Social es un caso unico dentro de la comunidad de microfinanzas. A pesar de atender a mas de un mi116n de clientes no tiene la e:xposici6n inteinacional de otras organizaciones como el Banco...
Among Latin American countries, Colombia has been a pioneer in policies and programs for the informal and microenterprise sectors. This support is the result of the efforts of a group of Non-governmental...
The central proposition of this paper is that credit unions are a self-sustainable means of reaching the poor. Their apparent neglect in the literature and in the various events associated with financial...
BancoSol's unique experience in converting from an NGO to a commercial bank serving a significant number of poor clients in Bolivia provides many important lessons to those interested in the financial...
The analysis of the network of Self-Managed Village Savings and Loan Banks (Caisses villageoises d'epargne et de credit autogerees: CVECAs) in the Pays Dogon region of Mali has proven to be of particular...