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August 30, 2012
Integrating training in hiring for microinsurance ventures
Many microinsurance providers must experience difficulties in recruiting its sales force. GRET in Cambodia offers an insight into how to overcome this challenge. GRET integrates a five week training programme for the initial recruits before they are hired. Read more here.
August 30, 2012
Regulating MIVs (Microfinance Investment Vehicles)
This post makes an intriguing case for regulation in the MIVs (Microfinance Investment Vehicles) in the light of all the bad publicity retail MFIs were exposed to, following Hugh Sinclair’s book ‘Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic’. Read more here.
August 30, 2012
India: MFIs to ask RBI to fix margin cap
MFIN (Microfinance Institutions Network), the self-regulatory body of MFIs in India will be asking RBI, the Central Bank of India to fix the margin cap for individual loan to customers at 12 per cent instead of 10-12 per cent. Currently, the interest rate cap on individual loans by MFIs is […]
August 30, 2012
The woman who changes Nairobi’s construction industry
This intriguing post talks about the benefits of single loans as against group loans in getting people out of poverty using microenterprises. Not everyone was born for (micro)enterprising, and the individuals who are self-motivated to start their own businesses can do so directly by raising capital online through a Kiva-like […]
August 30, 2012
Peru leads in microfinance monitoring
According to IDB (Inter-American Development Bank) President Luis Alberto Moreno, Peru’s banks’ monitoring capacity has strengthened the microfinance sector and scaled financial inclusion. Last year, Peru ranked first in the ‘Global microscope on the microfinance business environment 2011’. Read more here.
August 30, 2012
Myanmar to benefit from microfinance
A new microfinance bill passed by the new progressive government of Myanmar lets a wave of microfinance firms enter the country in the next quarter. According to the latest UN estimates, the country has an appetite for microfinance worth US$650 million, and this amount may vary to US$2 billion when […]
August 30, 2012
Why an independent MFI board adds greater value
Tameer Bank, a strong presence in the microfinance sector in Pakistan benefited from a strong and independent board. Says Nadeem Hussain, founder of the bank who held majority stake in the bank, that the independent collective wisdom of a board that would hold him accountable for his actions was better […]
August 30, 2012
Financing Small Enterprises
In this focus note, CGAP examines the role of MFIs in serving small enterprises. Small enterprises are a focus of development-centred institutions, given that small enterprises contribute more to the employment share in low income countries, in comparison with their higher income counterparts. Read it here.
August 30, 2012
Emerging Perspectives on Youth Savings
This Focus Note on youth savings is the first of such by the CGAP Publication. This paper focuses on challenges and opportunities of offering savings services to underserved youth in the developing countries. Read it here.
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