The inclusion of the poorest people in the world – the bottom billion – in formal and informal financial systems remains an elusive goal for governments and institutions around the world. While the “tools” of the economic development sector (microfinance, value chain development, market facilitation, enterprise development, savings groups, etc.) are successfully reaching poor households and are believed … Read More >
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Microfinance CEOs map the way to responsible microfinance >
The founding members of the Microfinance CEO Working Group, which include the CEOs of ACCION, FINCA, Freedom from Hunger, Grameen Foundation USA, Opportunity International, Pro Mujer, VisionFund International, and Women’s World Banking, have just released “Road Map for the Microfinance Industry.” The Road Map outlines the Working Group members’ vision for the positive evolution of … Read More >
Governance, technology, youth, and microinsurance: Exploring the frontiers of financial services >
In the past year, situations such as political uprisings, borrower defaults and over-indebtedness, MFI mismanagement, and usury, among other things, have challenged the microfinance industry to expand to new frontiers in defining its role in access to finance and economic development. At the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference, workshops in the Frontiers in Financial Services track … Read More >
SEEP and the MIX present: A conversation on financial inclusion in Africa — Day Three >
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What do we do with this data? How do you get the right data to the right people?
The last question we want to look at (and the one raised in our prior post) is how financial inclusion data can be used in practice. The first step here is … Read More >
SEEP and the MIX present: A conversation on financial inclusion in Africa — Day Two >
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When MIX took on the project to create the map of financial inclusion in Africa, the first question we asked ourselves was, “Where are we going to get this information?” We know that data is not always easy to come by, especially within the microfinance world. … Read More >
SEEP and the MIX present: A conversation on financial inclusion in Africa — Day One >
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What do we need to know about financial inclusion in Africa?
Researchers sometimes speak about ‘the streetlight effect.’ There are different versions of this story, but most follow along these lines:
A policeman sees a man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what he has lost. … Read More >
