Jasmina Glisovic

Jasmina Glisovic serves as a Country Manager with the Council of Europe Development Bank, focusing on social integration and job creation in Europe. She previously worked with the Donors and Investors and Clients teams in CGAP’s Paris office where she provided strategic advice on microfinance to donors and investors and served as CGAP’s lead on the work related to micro and small enterprises (MSEs) and savings agenda. Before joining CGAP, she worked as a credit manager for the Danish Refugee Council (Serbia) and for the Micro Development Fund. She has a master’s degree in economics and speaks Serbian (native), English, and French.

By Jasmina Glisovic

Research

Microfinance Funds Continue to Grow Despite the Crisis

So far, microfinance funds have been relatively unscathed by the financial crisis that has wreaked havoc on most asset classes around the world.
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National Microfinance Strategies

This Brief summarizes a study of several national microfinance strategy/policy documents.
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Linking Financial Service Providers to Commercial Capital:

This Brief addresses guarantees used by microfinance institutions as funding instruments.
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The True Cost of Deposit Mobilization

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) seem to be of two minds about the cost of mobilizing savings. In a recent CGAP study, the majority of institutions interviewed perceived deposits as the cheapest form of funding available, as well as stable, plentiful, and a valuable service to clients.