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Blog Series

Data on Market Saturation

This series will feature emerging studies that examine market saturation globally.

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Blog
21 August 2013

Preventing Financial Marginalization of Consumers in the US

The recent recession in the United States has exposed and aggravated the extent to which many families struggle to just keep up financially. This financial marginalization impairs their capacity to participate in the larger economy.
Blog
07 August 2013

Introducing MIMOSA: Microfinance Market Capacity Measurement Tool

The MIMOSA is a knowledge tool to estimate credit penetration in markets across the world.
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11 July 2013

Credit Market Saturation: Anatomy of a Recent Debate

Two recent posts on repayment of microfinance loans in Tamil Nadu has sparked a debate between the authors. Both of whom raise a question for the industry as a whole: how can we better measure over-indebtedness and market saturation?
Blog
17 June 2013

Defaults Versus Over-indebtedness in Morocco

In Morocco, microcredit borrowers don't default only when they are unable to repay loans. Individual or collective defaults also result when credit providers lose legitimacy and borrowers are not willing to repay.
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10 June 2013

Loan Defaults Versus Over-indebtedness in Rural Tamil Nadu

As research in Tamil Nadu shows, defaulting on microloans might not always be due to over-indebtedness.
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Blog
16 May 2013

Gabriel Davel Proposes Tests for Credit Bubbles

Davel helped create South Africa’s National Credit Regulator, one of the world's most capable financial consumer protection agencies. In a new Focus Note, Davel draws on a number of debt crises and distills his own experience into practical guidance.
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Blog
06 May 2013

Does Market Saturation Increase the Risk of Over-indebtedness?

Over-indebtedness is commonly linked to overly penetrated markets, but determining whether market saturation drives over-indebtedness is not so simple.

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