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Poverty Outreach - Big Expectations, Mixed Results, Transparency Opportunity, September 2012
Lucia Spaggiari - Social Rating Director at MicroFinanza Rating
Microfinance promises to reach the poor and the excluded.  Yet, very little is known about the profile of the clients reached.  MicroFinanza Rating presents the actual poverty outreach observed in the industry over the past seven years of social ratings? READ MORE...

Outreach of MFIs in India to Low Income Families, 2011
Sanjay Sinha - Managing Director of Micro Credit Ratings International
Summary of the information collected by M-CRIL from the social ratings of Indian MFIs over the previous 18 months. READ MORE...



Open Letter To CGAP - How to Revive the Collapsing Bull, May 2011
Sanjay Sinha - Managing Director of Micro Credit Ratings International
I, Sanjay Sinha, am writing this letter on the eve of your Annual Meeting in Cambodia having become aware of the meeting mainly by the chance of seeing Geeta Goel of MSDF in the lounge at Delhi airport last night.  This letter is a follow up to my earlier note (of which many of you will be aware), How to Calm the Charging Bull, written in June 2010. READ MORE...

M-CRIL India Indices of Microfinance, 2011
Sanjay Sinha - Managing Director of Micro Credit Ratings International
Measures of the performance of the 24 largest MFI's in India.  Growth of the largest Indian MFIs in 2010-11 has declined to a very low level and average financial performance has declined drastically from the hights of 2009-10.  READ MORE...

M-CRIL Welcomes the Reserve Bank of India's Approach to Microfinance, May 2011
Sanjay Sinha - Managing Director of Micro Credit Ratings International
In its Monetary Policy Statement for 2011‐12, the Reserve Bank of India has communicated its acceptance of “the broad framework of regulations recommended by the (Malegam) Committee”.  In view of the uncertainty prevailing since 14 October 2010 in the microfinance sub‐sector of the financial system, M‐CRIL welcomes this acceptance.  READ MORE...

 
Microfinance: Is There Really a Crisis?, September 2011
Mikhail Mamuta - Director of the Russian Microfinance Center
To answer this question we should define what are we talking of, first of all. What do we mean by a “crisis in microfinance”? Is it the crisis because of the Global Financial Crisis? Or the crisis of over indebtnesses? Or ethical crisis? Or, perhaps, is it the crisis of the microfinance mission? READ MORE...

Background photo courtesy of Microcredit Summit Campaign