Partnerships with local NGOs and microfinance institutions (MFIs) has helped launch some microinsurance products.
Small entrepreneurs are working to restore their enterprises with funding support from microfinance institutions.
This creative use of widespread mobile services is also enabling the growth of microfinance institutions.
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Finally, microfinance institutions can tackle the cost of distribution for direct to farmer lending.
Over our 50-year history, we have helped build 64 microfinance institutions in 32 countries that today serve millions.
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In Bangladesh the government has capped the annual interest rate that microfinance institutions (MFIs) can charge at 27%.
When she first started her company, those clients were mainly microfinance institutions, an often-overlooked sector in the risk analysis market.
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Plus, in high school he received the Meritorious Distinction for Senior Thesis: Female Empowerment as a result of Microfinance Institutions in Third-World Nations.
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This will require prudent lending by microfinance institutions (and possibly regulatory oversight) but could unlock the potential for long term, sustainable economic growth.
In just three years, its client-protection principles have been endorsed by more than 1, 000 microfinance institutions in 130 countries representing more than 60 million clients.
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The current downward spiral was triggered by a Special Ordinance to rein in microfinance institutions that was approved late last week by the government of Andhra Pradesh.
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Not many microfinance institutions offer the services that people need most after a catastrophe: insurance, and access to their savings and to remittances from their families and friends.
The government and foreign donors have been lending at a concessional rate of just 3% a year to banks and microfinance institutions, which have been lending on at 6%.
Not only does empowering women lead to greater economic growth, women have much higher repayment rates on microloans, meaning that microfinance institutions are more sustainable when dominated by women members.
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Take Accion Investments in Microfinance (AIM), a for-profit equity fund created in 2003 to provide capital to microfinance institutions (MFIs) working in challenging markets where such funding was typically unavailable.
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Your gift will support our network of 39 local microfinance institutions around the globe, helping them to better serve the poor by developing innovative products, and sharing best-practices and lessons learned.
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This should be the great strength of microfinance institutions.
Microfinance Institutions are currently holding a lot of financial resources in both credit and savings and if not properly managed and controlled, they can be cause a risk to the financial sector.
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One example is Bridging the Gap, a research project we commissioned with the Monitor Group to help banks and microfinance institutions better understand the value of empowering their clients to make sound decisions through financial education.
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As many international micro finance institutions have demonstrated (although not yet proven nationally), lending to poor people can be a sustainable strategy as these nontraditional institutions get repaid and repay investors. (Note: Microfinance institutions are a subset of CDFIs in the United States).
Microfinance was developed in response to mainstream financial institutions which failed to provide financial services for the poor.
By building strong sustainable institutions, WWB helps to foster a socially responsible microfinance model.
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The microfinance industry is somewhere between 35 to 40 yrs old, and the founder of many of these institutions is at an age where he or she needs to think about succession planning.
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