The MicroBanking Bulletin Issue # 2
Calmeadow
Publication Date: 1998
Published by: Economics Institute
Document Type: Other
A database on financial results from the word's leading microfinance institutions
This second issue of the MicroBanking Bulletin includes:
- The "Yin and Yang of Microfinance: Reaching the Poor and Sustainability," by Elisabeth Rhyne;
- "The Asian Financial Crisis - Some Implications for Microfinance," by Paul McGuire;
- A tribute to Sugianto, the Managing Director of Bank Rakyat Indonesia's Unit Desa system from Marguerite S. Robinson.
It also includes financial results from 72 MFIs from around the world. These 72 programs represent a broadening and deepening of the Bulletin's database of financial results from leading microfinance institutions the world over. The bulk of the new additions are smaller or newer MFIs who mostly focus their services on the poorer end of the micro sector as indicated by the formation of our new "low end" peer groups. Also, several programs that serve the upper end of the target group also sent in their data as indicated by the creation of the "Worldwide - High" peer group. The number of fully financially sustainable institutions included in the Bulletin rose from 21 to 34 from the first to this second issue, and the number of others rose from 7 to 38.
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