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The Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN) is an association of microfinance networks in Africa resulting from an initiative led by African microfinance practitioners to create and strengthen country-level microfinance networks for the purpose of establishing shared performance standards, institutional capacity and policy change.
Village bank loans typically use market interest rates. A 2006 study of 71 microfinance institutions engaged in village banking found an average portfolio yield of 27.7%, after adjusting for local inflation. [8] The village bank itself will usually mark up this rate when it on-lends to individual members.
Microfranchising is a business model that applies elements and concepts of traditional franchising to small businesses in the developing world. It refers to the systemization and replication of micro-enterprises. Microfranchising is broadly defined as small businesses that can easily be replicated by following proven marketing and operational ...
Microcredit reached Latin America with the establishment in Bolivia in 1986 of PRODEM, a bank that later transformed into the for-profit BancoSol. [12] In Chile, BancoEstado Microempresas is the primary microcredit institution. [ 13 ]
The real average portfolio yield cited by the sample of 704 microfinance institutions that voluntarily submitted reports to the MicroBanking Bulletin in 2006 was 22.3% annually. However, annual rates charged to clients are higher, as they also include local inflation and the bad debt expenses of the microfinance institution. [20]
FINCA International is a non-profit, microfinance organization, founded by John Hatch in 1984. [1] FINCA is the innovator of the village banking methodology in microcredit and is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern-day microfinance. [2]
Globalization isn’t dead, it’s ‘accelerating,’ argues the CEO of a $4.2 billion startup that sources talent from all over the world Alan Murray, Nicholas Gordon February 21, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Microfoundations are an effort to understand macroeconomic phenomena in terms of economic agents' behaviors and their interactions. [1] Research in microfoundations explores the link between macroeconomic and microeconomic principles in order to explore the aggregate relationships in macroeconomic models.