Lend some thought

The Hindustan Times;  October 23, 2006 ;     660 words ......access to credit. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) include a broad range of financial sector...Sector, 2004, micro-credit schemes and MFIs serve 41 million poor people in over 65...and must resort to informal moneylenders.MFIs are potentially useful for filling the...

Uganda: Micro Finance - Loss & Gain

Women's Feature Service;  May 10, 2004 ;     700+ words ......women - attached to 1,350 micro finance institutions (MFIs). MFIs have managed to mobilise $40 million worth of savings...Development Agency (DANIDA) stated in February 2004 that Ugandan MFIs, since they began a decade ago, have been quite successful...

Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions: A Comparison to...

Journal of Microfinance;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......The number of microfinance institutions (MFIs) making small loans to the developing world...increasing competition for scarce funding. Few MFIs have reached self-sufficiency, and fewer...institutions. Comparing the performance of MFIs that have attained self-sufficiency with...

ANALYSIS: Suddenly, it is sexy to fund the poor.

Times of India (New Delhi, India);  April 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ......flowing towards microfinance institutions (MFIs) suggests that the sector is gradually...Bank, which has lent Rs 4,500 crore to MFIs over the past three years. Still, Hegde...returns, are showing interest in Indian MFIs. Many of them have built up a strong client...

Code to put micro financiers' house in order.

Economic Times (New Delhi, India);  March 27, 2006 ;     670 words ......transparency. Releasing the code, Mr Mahajan said, MFIs will charge reasonable rates and indicate...people demand of us, because if we do that, MFIs will go out of business, he added, pointing...to ensure that isolated actions of some MFIs and some members of the staff do not mar...

CAMEROON: MICROFINANCE A RIPE TARGET FOR CONMEN AND QUACKS

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  November 28, 2008 ;     700+ words ......IPS/GIN) - Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have improved access to credit and banking...opposition from the formal banking sector. MFIs are the only financial institutions available...under Dutch coaching and assistance. But MFIs only established their present powerful...

Microfinance Institutions in Transition: Fonkoze in Haiti Moves toward...

Journal of Microfinance;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Abstract: Microfinance institutions (MFIs) established to provide the poor with access...loan portfolios and social programs. As MFIs mature they aspire to become more efficient...economically sustainable institutions. Many MFIs collect savings deposits but are often...

Asia: Bangladesh - Pressure Grows For A More Robust Microcredit Sector -...

The Banker;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......danger that microfinance institutions (MFIs) will be co-opted into the latter and lose...so they are encouraged to do more. Q If MFIs are allowed to collect public deposits...regulatory oversight is necessary, and MFIs are ready for it. But we need to make it...

Finding Balance

ESR Review;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......have the same profitability drivers as MFIs, every social entrepreneur and organization...with Dwight Haase's consideration of how MFIs can equalize their clientele of men and...organizational and structural practices of MFIs with the constraints and norms of the country...

Business Options.(Business News)

Manila Bulletin;  May 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ......and the especially significant role that MFIs have taken on in the economy, the participation of the MFIs was a major consideration when the Rural...of solar home systems, on the other hand, MFIs have been identified as the vehicle that...

Funding a path out of poverty

The Spectator;  March 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Navi Mumbai. Microfinance institutions (MFIs) such as SKS are slowly but inexorably...and capital markets. An estimated 3,000 MFIs operate around the world, providing up...sector, says that within two to three years MFIs will have become an asset class in their...

In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First

Stanford Social Innovation Review;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......is to alleviate poverty, they say, then MFIs should focus on helping their clients build...dollars that microfinance institutions (MFIs) such as Grameen Bank Accion International...microfinance are, indeed, inconclusive. MFIs vary so much in their missions, strategies...

The Microfinance Muddle Five months after a collector in Andhra's Krishna...

Business Today;  September 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......raided offices of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and ordered 30 of them shut, including those of better-known MFIs such as Share Microfin and Spandana. What...were three major complaints against the MFIs operating here: One, that they were charging...

INNOVATION Spurs GROWTH

ESR Review;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......innovations are different and specific to MFIs, but all focus on one feature: they are...launching pad and competitive advantage for MFIs, but most people are confused about these...and they have started to compete with MFIs. For instance, they've started lending...

DBP'S MICRO-FINANCE DEAL OK'ED

The Manila Times;  August 12, 2006 ;     224 words ......available to microfinance institutions (MFIs) for relending to rural enterprises and...development. To qualify, bank and non-bank MFIs including rural banks, thrift banks, cooperatives...Performance Standards for all types of MFIs. Besides this, a capacity-building facility...