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LATEST ARTICLES
How can microfinance adapt to climate risk?
Before climate change even reached top-priority level on the global agenda, microfinance institutions have started to take local action against natural disasters.As the 3rd highest risk area in the world, with more than 60% of its land area exposed to...
(Micro)finance for Resilience: Helping Clients Adapt to Climate Change
The challenge of climate changeNew data on climate change continues to emerge, and it is seldom good. CO2 levels are at historic highs. Arctic ice continues to shrink. Climate-related natural disasters such as hurricanes and drought increase in both...
Digitalisation: what’s at stake for microfinance? Advans point of view
The booming digitalisation in developing countries, especially on the African continent, is one of the main factors behind the increase in financial inclusion witnessed in the past ten years. In Sub-Saharan Africa for example, 42.6% of the adult population...
Microfinance and financial inclusion: terminology aside, is there a real difference between the two?
Over the past decade, microfinance has gradually evolved into the broader field of financial inclusion. But are these two terms interchangeable? Renée Chao-Beroff, Director of Pamiga, and Isabelle Guerin, a researcher at the Institute of Research for...
Do private microfinance stakeholders really care about Social Performance?
More than 10 years ago, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus said “I firmly believe that we can create a poverty-free world if we collectively believe in it. In a poverty-free world, the only place you would be able to see poverty is in the poverty...
Reusing the (Social Performance Management) wheel: what can impact investing learn from microfinance
The Microfinance Barometer is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. A look back at the publication’s key themes over the last decade reveals an interesting dynamic. Many of the “hot topics” of the 2010’s, with the exception of digitalisation, could easily...
Social Performance Management is becoming mainstream. An opportunity – or a threat – for the impact investment sector?
As a niche initially confined to distant geographies and populations unattended by the mainstream financial industry, the microfinance sector has since long embraced the issue of social performance. Promising the responsible inclusion of the excluded, and...
Overview of the flagship articles of 10 years of Microfinance Barometer What have been the trends and evolutions of microfinance ?
In a context of renewed economic and social policies aimed at combatting poverty, the emergence of microcredit in the 1980s quickly sparked a lot of interest. Development stakeholders saw in this tool a means of reducing poverty by financially empowering...
Unlocking the potential of microcredit for a more inclusive and dynamic Europe
Thirty years ago, when setting up the Association for the Right to Economic Initiative (ADIE) in France, Maria Nowak introduced in Europe an innovation that had already been successfully developed in Bangladesh by Professor Yunus: microcredit. ADIE’s goal...
Solidarity finance, a tool benefiting microfinance
In early 2019, nearly €13 billion1 were placed in socially responsible investments, enabling activities with high social and environmental value to be funded. Social savings deposits increased 8 times in 10 years and witnessed double-digit annual growth...
An evening to meet the people who depict the world differently
How can we accelerate the ecological, social and democratic transitions our world needs? How can the media contribute to the evolution of people’s mindsets and behaviours towards a more sustainable world? Creating new narratives to inspire a great number...
5 reasons not to miss the Convergences World Forum this year
"Inequalities - Transitions - Solutions". The Convergences World Forum will be back at the Palais Brongniart in Paris on September 5 and 6 for its 12th edition. Looking for an inspiring and sustainable post-summer event? Convergences offers you 5 good reasons not to...
Meet us at the European Development days !
Why do inequalities matter for sustainable development? How can we understand the structural causes of inequalities? How can we work better together through more effective policies to address inequalities? How to address the 5 “Ps” of the 2030 Agenda: People, Planet,...
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