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Follow on Google News | Over 80% Investors Haven't Reduced Their Microfinance Investment Portfolio Due To Global RecessionMicrofinance Insights Survey Reveals Views of 160 Microfinance Stakeholders; Latest issue features KIVA, Citi India, Kashf-Pakistan, Unitus, Grameen Koota
By: Intellecap Microfinance clients, many of whom are below the poverty line, have felt the squeeze with rising food and energy prices, decreases in remittances and less availability of loans. Many microfinance institutions (MFIs), particularly those not permitted to mobilize deposits, have struggled to maintain the liquidity to continue loan cycles without interruption. As the situation worsens, equity investors continue to show interest in investing in large microfinance institutions, confident that many established MFIs will weather the crisis. Microfinance Insights, the international print magazine, brings a diversity of new perspectives to the forefront in this issue, shedding light on the road ahead for the sector. In this issue, the magazine publishes a new survey on microfinance and the global economic crisis, gathering views from 120 MFIs and 40 investors from around the world on a range of issues from strategic organizational changes to risk assessment. The survey reveals that over 25% of non-deposit taking MFIs have decreased their lending in the last 12 months and 20% have reduced their staff size. Forty- Features of Vol. 11 Microfinance Insights, Global Crisis & Microfinance include: How Microfinance can make it through the Global Recession by Yana Watson of Dalberg Global Development Advisors Commentary on the Dangers of Leverage by Vinay Nair, Executive Director, JP Morgan Alok Prasad, Country Director, Citi Microfinance Group, Citi India, on lending to MFIs during the downturn Roshanah Zafar, Founder Kashf, on Political Interference in Pakistani microfinance Milford Bateman, Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Juraj Dobria in Croatia, critiques the microfinance sector Bhakti Mirchandani, Associate Vice President at Unitus Capital, on the need for a publicly traded MFI index Perspectives from borrowers in Mexico and Nigeria, and Triodos, KIVA and Aga Khan Foundation And much more… Microfinance Insights is a dynamic, fast growing magazine with over 10,000 readers around the world. The magazine is published from India by Intellecap, the social investment advisory firm, and is international in content and distribution, bringing in articles, interviews and commentary from India as well as microfinance markets around the world including Mexico, the Philippines, Nepal, Ecuador, Kazakhstan and Pakistan. Microfinance Insights publishes on a bimonthly schedule, producing 6 issues a year. The magazine also has networks on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as a blog on the website www.microfinanceinsights.com. Upcoming issues of the magazine include a focus on Social Impact in May/June and a look at Private Equity investment in the sector in July/August 2009. Past issues of the magazine have highlighted opinions and analyses from leading industry voices from the CGAP, the IFC, Morgan Stanley, Blue Orchard, Women’s World Banking, MIX Market, MicroCapital Monitor, the Micro Insurance Center, Sanabel, SKS and many others. # # # About Microfinance Insights Microfinance Insights (www.microfinanceinsights.com) End
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