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Philippines Annual Benchmark Report

This report includes key financial and operational indicators that provide a country overview, indicator level performance and institutional details.

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Learning Curve Spillovers and Transactions Cost in the Microfinance Industry of the Philippines

How Philippine MFIs attain operational self-sufficiency in spite of high transaction costs
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The Development and Implementation of a Uniform Set of Performance Standards for All Types of Microfinance Institutions in the Philippines

A set of standards measuring portfolio quality, operational efficiency, sustainability and outreach
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Card Rural Bank

Reviewing the programs
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SMMPC (A): The Beginnings of a Cooperative

Tracking the growth of SMMPC
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SMMPC (B): Working Towards Sustainable Development

Implementing improvements for growth
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SMMPC (C): The Cooperative Revisited

Reviewing SMMPC's experience and its performance
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Alternative Measures of the Effectiveness of Microfinance Organisations

Comparing accepted standards with improved measures for evaluating microfinance institutions
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Assessing Microfinance and the USAID MABS Program in the Philippines: Under the Microscope of the New Institutional Economics

How effective has the MABS program been in the Philippines?
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What Makes Microcredit Programmes Effective? Fashionable Fallacies and Workable Realities

There is more than one route to make micro-credit systems viable