Features
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Pick of the Year 2011
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December 19, 2011
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CGAP staff share their top reads for 2011. Books, articles, and blog posts all make the cut—read on for recommendations of the best pieces relating to financial inclusion for the year, from our staff.
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Is Microcredit Over-Indebting Too Many Borrowers?
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November 7, 2011
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Is over-indebtedness a widespread problem? A new CGAP paper looks at over-indebtedness among microborrowers and argues that the issue has been studied so little that there is simply no empirical answer to that question. The authors argue that there are strong reasons why lenders and governments in certain markets should want to know more.
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What is The Role of Microfinance Funders in Promoting Savings?
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October 30, 2011
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Saving is a crucial component of poor people’s economic well-being and supporting savings mobilization is essential to building inclusive financial systems. However, the majority of microfinance funders still focus their activities around credit, rather than savings. To celebrate World Savings Day, CGAP is releasing a technical guide that looks at what funders can do to support savings services.
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Winners of the 2010 CGAP Microfinance Photography Contest
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June 10, 2011
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CGAP announces the winners of the 2010 Photography Contest, featuring the photographs that portray people’s ingenuity and capacity to make their own livelihoods across the globe. From Madagascar to Madhya Pradesh, from a candlemaker in the Philippines, to the clothes seller on the streets of Breslau, Poland, the images show the entrepreneurial spirit and energy of human enterprise.
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Grameen Bank and Mohammed Yunus: A Timeline
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May 10, 2011
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Over the last few months, events in Bangladesh have captured the attention of the microfinance industry as well as the media. Here is an overview and timeline of events on Grameen Bank.
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Defining a New Path to “Graduation” Out of Extreme Poverty
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April 17, 2011
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Over the past five years, CGAP and the Ford Foundation have supported 10 pilot projects managed by an array of local partners in eight countries that seek to give the poorest people in select communities the ability to take the first steps toward self-sufficient and stable livelihoods.
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The Challenge for Islamic Microfinance
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March 8, 2011
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Islamic Microfinance is facing the challenge to find viable business models that provide microfinance products compatible with Islamic law (Shariah). Given that the group of 2.7 billion unbanked includes a vast number of Muslims, expanding the availability of affordable and sustainable Shariah-compliant services can prove to be transformative for microfinance.
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Microfinance Faces Changing Risks: Banana Skins 2011
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February 2, 2011
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With growth in some markets moving at a fast pace, the microfinance sector faces changing risks. The latest Microfinance Banana Skins 2011 report shows that microfinance institutions must confront new realities to sustain the good reputation the microfinance industry has enjoyed in recent years. The survey measured the risk perceptions of more than 500 practitioners, investors, and close observers of microfinance in 86 countries.
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A Year in Review: 2010
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January 28, 2011
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Two thousand and ten was a decisive year for the microfinance industry, and a turning point for poor people’s access to finance globally. Read more about the successes and challenges addressed by CGAP and others in 2010.
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The Benefits of Microfinance: Revisited
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November 18, 2010
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As the body of research grows, it is clear that randomized control trials can provide useful tools for MFIs and other providers to test the demand for new products, and their potential for impact on the lives of the world’s poor. Innovative research on impact and product development was the theme of the Microfinance Impact and Innovation Conference, held in New York in October.
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