Professor Conroy's Microfinance Information Page

Here are some interesting links pertaining to microfinance (note: I do not necessarily endorse, support, etc. any of these organizations--these are for informational purposes only):

General Information:

• Mix Market
• The Mix
• Microfinance Gateway
• Wikipedia Microfinance Page
• CGAP

Social Performance:

• Social Performance Task Force
• Blue Orchard Social Performance Report
• Interesting article on Microfinance by Professor David Costa demonstrating high returns in microfinance despite the financial crisis.

Articles about microfinance:

• Reaching Mexico's Unbanked (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2008) including a discussion of Banco Azteca
• New Yorker Article by Connie Bruck, 'Millions for Millions' (October 30, 2006).
• Business Week: The Ugly Side of Microlending (and related articles), by Keith Epstein and Geri Smith
• Standard and Poor's 'Microfinance: Taking Root in the Global Capital Markets' (June 2007)
• Microfinance Fever (Forbes Magazine Jan 7, 2008)
• The World's Top 50 Microfinance Institutions (Forbes Magazine Dec 20, 2007)
• Microfinance Misses Its Mark Article suggesting that large, labor-intensive industrial development is better than microfinance..
• Annual Microcredit Summit Report from www.microcreditsummit.org.
• M. Yunus against for-profit MFI's

Journals about microfinance:

• Microbanking Bulletin from MIX, Microfinance Exchange, Inc.
• MixMarket.org A nonprofit organization that collects and disseminates financial and other data on over 1,000 MFI's around the globe.

Organizations working in the area of microfinance:

• Accion International
• Grameen Bank made famous by 2006 Nobel Peace Price winner, Muhammed Yunus
• Grameen Foundation
• BRAC
• Opportunity International
• CGAP a resource center for the entire microfinance industry
• Microcredit Summit Campaign
• IFMR Centre for Microfinance an Indian microfinance research institute
• Kiva
• Microfinance Network
• Women's Empowerment International
• Banco Compartamos (A for-profit company)
  • A document on GCAP reflections on Banco Compartamos' IPO (PDF)
  • Banco Compartamos Stock Quote in Yahoo Finance
  • Microcredit Summit Discussion about Banco Compartamos' IPO
• Unitus nonprofit accelerator--part Social VC, part strategy consulting firm, part investment bank
• Listing of microfinance institutions around the globe

San Diego organizations working in the area of microfinance: