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Rethinking MSME Financing: It's the Customer's Digital Transformation That Matters
As small businesses go digital, platform data can help MFIs better serve them, contributing to a healthier, more sustainable and more inclusive lending model.
Sharing the Risk: “Micro Equity” for Savings Groups
DreamStart Labs is re-thinking assumptions about how to design solutions for people in emerging economies, starting with a new product which aims to distribute risks more fairly.
Experiences in Gender-Sensitive Solutions to Collateral Constraints
How the use of non-conventional collateral can contribute to improved access to affordable credit
Productive Versus Consumption Loans: A Distinction That Hurts Rather Than Helps
Water.org explains why water and sanitation loans have high repayment rates and should be prioritized by MFIs, and makes a call to all microfinance professionals to reject the misguided labeling of loans as either productive or for consumption only.
Bridging the Credit Gap for Micro and Small Enterprises Through Digitally Enabled Financing Models
How can lenders provide credit to MSEs more effectively?
Two-Sides of the Same Rupee? Comparing Demand for Microcredit and Microsaving in a Framed Field Experiment in Rural Pakistan
Comparing the demand for credit and saving services
How Does Contract Design Affect the Uptake of Microcredit Among the Rural poor? Experimental Evidence from the River Islands of Northern Bangladesh
Discussing how different microcredit contract designs affect borrowing among the ultra-poor
Self-Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Evaluating the effects of capital constraints on farmers in Mali
Financing Smallholder Farmers to Increase Incomes and Transform Lives in Rural Communities
Sharing Opportunity International’s methodology in advancing smallholder finance in Africa
Role of Credit Risk Management Practices in Sustainability of Micro Credit Schemes in Nakuru County
Analyzing how credit risk management affects the sustainability of microcredit schemes