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Assessing the Relative Poverty of Microfinance Clients:
This is a brief overview of the Poverty Assessment Tool, which can be used to construct a multi-dimensional Poverty Index.Publication
Microfinance and HIV/AIDS
This Donor Brief addresses how microfinance can play a role in helping families affected by HIV/AIDS and how microfinance institutions can plan for the institutional risk posed by this epidemic.Publication
Microfinance Poverty Assessment Tool
The multi-dimensional Poverty Index constructed by the tool is for donors and investors who require a standardized, globally applicable set of poverty indicators to make poverty-focused funding decisions and to compare MFIs across regions and countries.Publication
Financial Terms, Ratios, and Adjustments for Microfinance
This Consensus Guidelines puts forward standard definitions for selected financial terms, commonly used and subject to confusion, and suggests a standard method of calculating certain financial ratios. The definitions established in this document will make comparisons among MFIs more meaningful and promote more transparency in MFI reporting.Publication
Disclosure Guidelines for Financial Reporting by MFIs
This Consensus Guidelines represents the consensus of CGAP's member donors on microfinance institution (MFI) financial reporting requirements. The guidelines do not prescribe accounting policies or any particular format for financial reporting. Rather, they indicate the minimum information that should be included in MFI financial reports, regardless of how that information is presented.Publication
The Impact of Microfinance
This Donor Brief looks at how donor funding for microfinance can be powerful as a complement to investment in other social services.Publication
Guiding Principles on Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance
Captured here is broad consensus on many principles of good practice in regulation and supervision of microfinance. The guidelines summarize these principles for government regulators and others engaged in moving microfinance into the formal financial sector.Publication
Regulation and Supervision of Microfinance
This Donor Brief provides a simple and clear summary of the increasingly complex issues in microfinance regulation and supervision. It includes definitions of key terms, clear guidelines, and options for donor action.Publication
Microfinance Means Financial Services for the Poor
This Donor Brief summarizes the vision and strategy of CGAP members to bring microfinance to the scale required to serve millions worldwide.Publication