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<title>Microfinance</title>
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<description>Microfinance</description>
<dc:date>2012-02-01</dc:date>
<dc:creator>Olivier Dagnelie</dc:creator>
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<title>The Village Fund Loan: Who Gets It, Keeps It and Loses It?</title>
<link>http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:han:dpaper:dp-490&#x26;r=mfd</link>
<description>The village funds programme in Thailand is one of the biggest microfinance programmes in the world aiming at improving access to finance and income in rural areas. Earlier studies indicate that the programme is successful in realising its ambitions to some degree. We extend this work by analysing a second wave of a household survey and find that village fund borrowers are consistently characterised by a lower economic status; accordingly village fund loan are an important lifeline to those households. However, we cannot identify any significant substitution between village fund loans and other loans, raising doubts about the long-run impact of the village fund programme.</description>
<dc:creator>Kislat, Carmen, Menkhoff, Lukas</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-01</dc:date>
<dc:subject>rural finance, informal financial institutions, microfinance, Thailand</dc:subject>
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<title>Micro-finance competition: motivated micro-lenders, double-dipping and default</title>
<link>http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:36116&#x26;r=mfd</link>
<description>We develop a tractable model of competition among motivated MFIs. We find that equilibria may or may not involve double-dipping (and consequently default), with there being double-dipping whenever the MFIs are very profit-oriented. Moreover, in an equilibrium with double-dipping, borrowers who double-dip are actually worse off compared to those who do not. Further, for intermediate levels of motivation, there can be multiple equilibria, with a double-dipping equilibrium co-existing with a no default equilibrium. Interestingly, an increase in MFI competition can lower efficiency, as well as increase the extent of double-dipping and default. Further, the interest rates may go either way, with the interest rate likely to increase if the MFIs are very motivated.</description>
<dc:creator>Guha, Brishti, Roy Chowdhury, Prabal</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-01-15</dc:date>
<dc:subject>Micro-finance competition; motivated MFIs; double-dipping; default</dc:subject>
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<title>2011: Climate Change: Latin America and the Caribbean: Risks for the Microfinance Sector and Opportunities for Adaptation</title>
<link>http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:idb:brikps:62058&#x26;r=mfd</link>
<description>The purpose of this study is to show how microfinance services may undergo the impacts of climate change, to analyze the opportunities available for MFIs and to propose concrete actions. This paper was commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in coordination with the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Unit (ECC) and the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), and it was prepared on the basis of bibliographic reviews, experience in the Latin American region, and interviews that were carried out during missions in Peru and Guatemala.</description>
<dc:creator>Mar&#xED;a Elena Gutierrez, Xavier Mommens</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2011-10</dc:date>
<dc:subject>Environment &#x26; Natural Resources :: Climate Change, Private Sector :: Microbusinesses &#x26; Microfinance, Social Development :: Poverty, Financial Sector :: Financial Services, MFI, microfinance sector, CC, microfinance institutions, microcredits</dc:subject>
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<title>Is it all about Money? A Randomized Evaluation of the Impact of Insurance Literacy and Marketing Treatments on the Demand for Health Microinsurance in Senegal</title>
<link>http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mib:wpaper:216&#x26;r=mfd</link>
<description>In Senegal mutual health organizations (MHOs) have been present in the greater region of Thi&#xE8;s for years. Despite their benefits, in some areas there remain low take-up rates. We offer an insurance literacy module, communicating the benefits from health microinsurance and the functioning of MHOs, to a randomly selected sample of households in the city of Thi&#xE8;s. The effects of this training, and three cross-cutting marketing treatments, are evaluated using a randomized control trial. We find that the insurance literacy module has no impact, but that our marketing treatment has a significant effect on the take up decisions of households.</description>
<dc:creator>Jacopo Bonan, Oliver Dagnelie, Philippe LeMay-Boucher, Michel Tenikue</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2012-01</dc:date>
<dc:subject>Community based health insurance scheme, Randomized control trials, Africa, Senegal</dc:subject>
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<title>2005-2010 Microfinance Market Trends in Latin America and the Caribbean</title>
<link>http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:idb:brikps:62238&#x26;r=mfd</link>
<description>The objective of this report is to present an early update for the performance of the Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in regional, sub-regional and certain national markets at the close of the 2010 financial year in terms of coverage credit types, finance structure, and risk and profitability.</description>
<dc:creator>Renso Mart&#xED;nez</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2011-05</dc:date>
<dc:subject>Private Sector :: Microbusinesses &#x26; Microfinance, Financial Sector :: Financial Risk, Financial Sector :: Financial Markets, Financial Sector :: Financial Services, MFI, MIFs, Microfinance Institutions, credit types, finance structure, risk profitability</dc:subject>
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<title>Global Microscope on the Microfinance Business Environment 2011</title>
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<description>This report outlines the findings of the Economist Intelligence Unit&#x27;s in-depth analysis of the microfinance business environment in 55 countries. The index that underlies this report allows countries and regions to be compared across two broad categories: Regulatory Framework and Practices, which examines regulatory and market-entry conditions, and Supporting Institutional Framework, which assesses business practices and client interaction. The Microscope was originally developed for countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region in 2007 and was expanded into a global study in 2009. Most of the research for this report, which included surveys, interviews and desk analysis, was conducted in the first half of 2011. This year&#x27;s Microscope builds on last year&#x27;s study, but significantly improves it by utilising a new methodology, increasing the number of interviews conducted per country, and featuring financial performance data to provide context for each country&#x27;s scores.</description>
<dc:creator>Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2011</dc:date>
<dc:subject>Private Sector :: Microbusinesses &#x26; Microfinance, Financial Sector :: Financial Markets, microcredit. msme, mif, Business Environment</dc:subject>
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<title>Microfinanzas en M&#xE9;xico: Estudio</title>
<link>http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:idb:brikps:61538&#x26;r=mfd</link>
<description>El prop&#xF3;sito de este documento es ofrecer una mirada de amplio alcance al desarrollo de la industria de las microfinanzas, con el fin de determinar sus or&#xED;genes hist&#xF3;ricos, sus caracter&#xED;sticas actuales y los retos que enfrenta para lograr asegurar su sostenibilidad a largo plazo. Su objetivo es aportar elementos que propicien una discusi&#xF3;n interna que conduzca a evaluar la situaci&#xF3;n actual y las acciones que demanda el fortalecimiento de la industria a futuro, para lo cual se realiz&#xF3; una revisi&#xF3;n de las fuentes secundarias de informaci&#xF3;n disponibles sobre el mercado mexicano, tanto dentro del &#xE1;mbito m&#xE1;s amplio del desarrollo del sistema financiero como espec&#xED;ficamente alrededor de la evoluci&#xF3;n de las instituciones microfinancieras, buscando entender los antecedentes hist&#xF3;ricos que sirven de base para comprender la situaci&#xF3;n actual del sector de microfinanzas de M&#xE9;xico. Adem&#xE1;s, se realizaron entrevistas con representantes de distintas IMF, as&#xED; como a autoridades y expertos conocedores, con el fin de tener una visi&#xF3;n m&#xE1;s completa y actualizada de la situaci&#xF3;n del mercado de las microfinanzas en M&#xE9;xico.</description>
<dc:creator>Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), Marulanda Consultores, Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI)</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2011-03</dc:date>
<dc:subject>Sector privado :: Microempresas y microfinanciamiento, Sector financiero :: Servicios financieros, IMF, microcr&#xE9;dito, mesoam&#xE9;rica, mipyme</dc:subject>
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<title>Microscopio global sobre el entorno de negocios para las microfinanzas 2011</title>
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<description>En este informe se presentan los hallazgos del Economist Intelligence Unit tras analizar en profundidad el entorno de negocios para las microfinanzas en 55 pa&#xED;ses. El &#xED;ndice en el que se basa el informe permite comparar pa&#xED;ses y regiones en dos categor&#xED;as: Marco Regulatorio y Pr&#xE1;ctica, en la que se examina las condiciones regulatorias y de ingreso a mercados, y Marco Institucional, en la que se eval&#xFA;an las pr&#xE1;cticas de negocios y de interacci&#xF3;n con los clientes. El Microscopio fue elaborado originalmente para los pa&#xED;ses de Am&#xE9;rica Latina y el Caribe en 2007 y fue ampliado a un estudio mundial en 2009. La mayor parte de la investigaci&#xF3;n realizada para este informe, que incluye encuestas, entrevistas y an&#xE1;lisis de documentos sobre el sector, se llev&#xF3; a cabo en el primer semestre de 2011. La edici&#xF3;n de este a&#xF1;o introduce importantes mejoras ya que se utiliz&#xF3; una nueva metodolog&#xED;a, se increment&#xF3; el n&#xFA;mero de entrevistas.</description>
<dc:creator>Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2011-10</dc:date>
<dc:subject>Sector privado :: Microempresas y microfinanciamiento, Sector financiero :: Mercados financieros, microcr&#xE9;dito, mipymes, entorno de negocios</dc:subject>
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<title>Microfinanzas en Am&#xE9;rica Latina y el Caribe: El sector en cifras 2011</title>
<link>http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:idb:brikps:61478&#x26;r=mfd</link>
<description>El principal objetivo de esta publicaci&#xF3;n, es brindar en un solo documento, un resumen de las principales cifras del sector de microfinanzas de Am&#xE9;rica Latina y el Caribe. Este documento contiene informaci&#xF3;n primaria recolectada y procesada por el Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones (FOMIN) as&#xED; como informaci&#xF3;n secundaria provista por el Microfinance Information Exchange, Inc. (MIX), The Economist Intelligence Unit y la Federaci&#xF3;n Latinoamericana de Bancos (FELABAN). La informaci&#xF3;n se presenta en cuatro categor&#xED;as: (1) estructura del mercado por pa&#xED;s y crecimiento del sector desde el a&#xF1;o 2001; (2) penetraci&#xF3;n del microcr&#xE9;dito y del sector financiero; (3) entorno de negocios para la regi&#xF3;n seg&#xFA;n el Microscopio Global sobre el Entorno de Negocios para las Microfinanzas; y (4) desempe&#xF1;o en microfinanzas presentando las tasas de inter&#xE9;s cobradas por las instituciones de microfinanzas vis-&#xE0;-vis las de los bancos, as&#xED; como indicadores de referencia (benchmarks) de las instituciones de la regi&#xF3;n.</description>
<dc:creator>Paola A. Pedroza</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2011-10</dc:date>
<dc:subject>Sector privado :: Microempresas y microfinanciamiento, Sector financiero :: Servicios financieros, microcr&#xE9;dito, IMF, instituciones de microfinanzas, inclusi&#xF3;n financiera</dc:subject>
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<title>Tendencias 2005-2010 del mercado microfinanciero en Am&#xE9;rica Latina y el Caribe</title>
<link>http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:idb:brikps:62258&#x26;r=mfd</link>
<description>El objetivo del informe es brindar un actualizaci&#xF3;n del desempe&#xF1;o de las Instituciones Microfinancieras (IMF) del mercado regional, subregional y en algunos pa&#xED;ses seleccionados, al cierre del a&#xF1;o fiscal 2010 en t&#xE9;rmino de alcance, tipo de cr&#xE9;ditos, estructura financiera, riesgo y rentabilidad. Durante 2010, las instituciones de microfinanzas en Am&#xE9;rica Latina incrementaron su cartera en un 15.9%, mientras los dep&#xF3;sitos crecieron en un 23.3% comparado con las cifras a 2009. A nivel subregional, M&#xE9;xico mantuvo un crecimiento importante en su cartera durante 2010, incrementando la misma en 31.5%. Sin embargo, Centroam&#xE9;rica y el Caribe observaron una reducci&#xF3;n de su cartera del 1.1% durante 2010.</description>
<dc:creator>Renso Mart&#xED;nez</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2011-05</dc:date>
<dc:subject>Sector privado :: Microempresas y microfinanciamiento, Sector financiero :: Riesgo financiero, Sector financiero :: Mercados financieros, Sector financiero :: Servicios financieros</dc:subject>
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<title>Gu&#xED;a IPC de financiamiento a la peque&#xF1;a empresa</title>
<link>http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:idb:brikps:61938&#x26;r=mfd</link>
<description>Los IFR tienen un inter&#xE9;s evidente en explorar el mercado de cr&#xE9;dito de peque&#xF1;as empresas, pero carecen frecuentemente del know-how necesario para hacerlo de manera sostenible. Esta gu&#xED;a esboza las condiciones principales y las medidas que tienen que tomar los IFR para poder establecer y desarrollar las operaciones de cr&#xE9;dito con peque&#xF1;as empresas. Est&#xE1; basada en la experiencia acumulada por IPC en prestar asistencia a instituciones financieras de diferentes regiones del mundo para implementar las operaciones de cr&#xE9;dito con peque&#xF1;as empresas.</description>
<dc:creator>Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), Internationale Projekt Consult GmbH (IPC)</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2011-12</dc:date>
<dc:subject>Sector privado :: PYME, Sector financiero :: Servicios financieros, Sector privado :: Microempresas y microfinanciamiento, peque&#xF1;as empresas, peque&#xF1;os emprendimientos, pr&#xE9;stamos, cr&#xE9;ditos, financiamiento pyme</dc:subject>
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