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CGAP Upcoming Conferences
April 25th, 2012
READ MOREOn April 25 and 26, 2012, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) will host the online conference Financial Inclusion: What Really Works for Clients. The event will present policy-makers, micro-finance providers and clients talking about best practices in microfinance. …
Microfinance Photography Contest
January 30th, 2012
READ MORESince 2006 the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) organizes a successful Microfinance Photography Contest. The works presented by artists, journalists and nonprofessional photographers around the world reveal the human side and even the beauty of the financial scheme …
Latin America: Leadership in MF
January 24th, 2012
READ MORERafe Mazer, Regional Representative of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) in Latin America and Xavier Faz, CGAP’s Regional Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean, consider that in 2012 the zone is poised to assume an outstanding …
Cross-Border Funding Becomes Transparent
January 9th, 2012
READ MOREBarbara Gahwiler, a member of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), considers that 2011 has been a good year for transparency in microfinance. The available information of cross-border private and public funders reveals that more than sixty of …
Towards a Better Financial Inclusion
January 5th, 2012
READ MOREIgnacio Mas, a member of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor reveals that the magnitude of the financial inclusion gap in the world (70% of the population remains unbanked) calls for an urgent solution. Some initiatives have failed because …
Microfinance Investment Overview
December 28th, 2011
READ MOREMicrofinance Gateway, an Internet site developed by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, explains the essentials of microfinance to investors. According to the editors, the investments in microfinance institutions continue to grow and have generated “a strong interest among …
The Decade of the Client
December 23rd, 2011
READ MOREThe new quality standards of microfinance put the client at the center of the stage. But what does it means? Alexia Latortue, writer in the blog of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor analyzes the matter in depth in …
Regulations for Financial Inclusion
December 16th, 2011
READ MOREAt the Microfinance India Summit in Delhi, experts discussed the importance of regulators in achieving the goals of financial inclusion. Kate McKee, senior advisor of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) considers that regulations clarify ambiguities and is …
New Evaluations for Microfinance
December 7th, 2011
READ MOREThe Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) has published a new paper: Latest Findings from Randomized Evaluations from Microfinance divided in three parts: 1. Evaluating the Impacts of Microcredit and Microsaving; 2. Evaluations of Product Features; and 3. Microinsurance …
Too Much Microcredit?
December 1st, 2011
READ MOREJessica Shicks and Richard Rosenberg, researchers in the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor have published a new research paper: “Too Much Microcredit? A Survey of the Evidence of Over-Indebtedness”. The authors assert that over-indebtedness is more prevalent and its …