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Disclosure Guidelines for Financial Reporting by MFIs
This Consensus Guidelines represents the consensus of CGAP's member donors on microfinance institution (MFI) financial reporting requirements. The guidelines do not prescribe accounting policies or any particular format for financial reporting. Rather, they indicate the minimum information that should be included in MFI financial reports, regardless of how that information is presented.Publication
Guiding Principles on Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance
Captured here is broad consensus on many principles of good practice in regulation and supervision of microfinance. The guidelines summarize these principles for government regulators and others engaged in moving microfinance into the formal financial sector.Publication
Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance
This Donor Brief provides a simple and clear summary of the increasingly complex issues in microfinance regulation and supervision. It includes definitions of key terms, clear guidelines, and options for donor action.Publication
Microfinance Means Financial Services for the Poor
This Donor Brief summarizes the vision and strategy of CGAP members to bring microfinance to the scale required to serve millions worldwide.Publication
Credit Components
Designed as inputs to larger projects with limited life spans, credit components run the risk of failing to provide the intended target groups with permanent access to financial services. This Donor Brief outlines some ways to make the most of credit components and minimize their downsides.Publication
Scoring: The Next Breakthrough in Microcredit?
Scoring is a way to judge the risk of whether the self-employed poor will repay their microcredit debts as promised This Occasional Paper discusses how scoring works, what microlenders can expect from it, how to use it, and what its implications are for microcredit.Publication
Is Microfinance an Effective Strategy to Reach the MDGs?
This paper reviews the mounting body of evidence showing that the availability of financial services for poor households (“microfinance”) is a critical contextual factor with strong impact on the achievement of the Milennium Development Goals.Publication
Microfinance and the Millennium Development Goals
The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, education, women's empowerment, and the other Millennium Development Goals are rightly the focus of donors and governments. This brief gives the evidence for how microfinance can play an important part in achieving these goals.Publication
Microfinance, Grants, and Non-Financial Responses to Poverty Reduction
This note was written for audiences from development specialties outside the financial sector to provide guidance on where microfinance is most appropriate, and where complementary and alternative interventions are more effective.Publication