This Brief describes global trends in microfinance funding between 2007 and 2010.

CGAP’s 2009 Microfinance Investment Vehicles (MIVs) Survey sheds light on the resilience of microfinance investments.

This Brief looks at public and private foreign investment in SSA microfinance retailers, and the challenges that limit investment.

This Brief covers the highlights of the CGAP 2011 market scan of microfinance investment vehicles.

This Focus Note emanated from CGAP’s Secretariat fielding the same questions from numerous microfinance practitioners worldwide: “How do the Member Donors of CGAP fund microfinance institutions?

This publication includes a technical guide with essentials for an appraisal; a resource manual; and a spreadsheet to generate summary tables.

Microfinance Investment Vehicles in 2010 are confronting the most challenging investment environment since the 1990s.