July 20, 2009—The uneven quality of management in microfinance institutions has long been identified as one of the greatest risk to the growth of the microfinance industry. Indeed, respondents to the 2008 ...

Enter the 2009 CGAP Microfinance Photography Contest and help tell the world about microfinance and how it’s touching the lives of poor people.

The CGAP Microfinance Blog: research, analysis, and insights from CGAP's experts on microfinance and access to finance.

June 25, 2009—More than a billion people worldwide lack bank accounts, but do have mobile phones, providing a dramatic opportunity to achieve greater financial inclusion. That’s just one of many new insights CGAP has found with the GSMA Association through the Mobile Money Market Sizing Study. ...

June 4, 2009—A number of recent regulatory initiatives across the Arab World are changing the face of microfinance across the region. The governments of Syria and Yemen have recently introduced regulatory ...

The financial crisis has underscored the importance of deposits as a source of funding for financial institutions, both large and small. Though banks traditionally have been skeptical of the stability ...

The CGAP Microfinance Blog: research, analysis, and insights from CGAP's experts on microfinance and access to finance.

May 28, 2009. Washington, DC—The world’s headlines are filled with tales of the financial crisis—about bank bailouts, mortgage market meltdowns, liquidity shortages, and job losses. Recently, the Wall ...