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Building Value in Microfinance Through Digitization: A Role for Funders
Funders play a crucial role in ensuring that microfinance institutions (MFIs) continue to serve the most excluded and underserved customers in the future. This note highlights the importance of funders in supporting the digital transformation of MFIs.
Microfinance for Poverty Alleviation: Do Transnational Initiatives Overlook Fundamental Questions of Competition and Intermediation?
An unintended consequence of formal low-interest microfinance: It creates informal intermediation opportunities for entrepreneurs, ranging from casual intermediation to systematic deception.
Market Facilitation to Advance Financial Inclusion
New approaches to influence market dynamics and facilitate systemic change
New Insights Into An Evolving P2P Lending Industry
How shifts in roles and risk are shaping the industry
Capital Market Financing for SMEs: A Growing Need in Emerging Asia
Utilizing capital markets for funding SMEs in Asia
Research on the Development of Village and Township Banks in China
Obstacles and policy recommendations for promoting village and township banks
Microfinance Wholesale Funds: The Case of China (Chinese version)
Could a Chinese microfinance wholesale fund contribute to the further development of the sector?
Microfinance Wholesale Funds: The Case of China (English Version)
Could a Chinese microfinance wholesale fund contribute to the further development of the sector?
Microfinance, Poor Rural Households, and Women
Reviewing ADB's microfinance strategy
Field Manual - Supporting Microfinance Through Grants in Post-Crisis Settings
Supporting MFIs in countries recovering from conflict or natural disaster