Our resource page features resources published or authored by Enterprising Solutions staff and by other colleagues in development whose work we have found to be practically useful, insightful, or innovative.
- Microfinance and the Double Bottom Line in the Post Social Enterprise Era Explores the relationship between microfinance and the double bottom line with the objective of understanding how to maximize poverty alleviation as the sector evolves.
USAID, February, 2008 (PDF-493Kb)
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- Microfinance and the Double Bottom Line: Case Studies in Social Performance Management This paper presents four case studies: Equity Bank, Banco Compartamos, BASIX, and Share Microfinance Limited. Each case study provides insights into the way some leading MFIs manage their double bottom lines,
2008 (PDF-275Kb)
. - Competing Business Models and the Double Bottom Line The unquestioned principles of microfinance are now being parsed as is the presumed relationship between social and financial objectives. Is there an unacceptable level of profitability? Can high loan prices be justified? What is the sector’s responsibility towards its clients? Answers to these questions are elemental to defining the sector’s “double bottom line” aspirations and potential.
MicroBanking Bulletin, No. 16, Spring 2008. Starting on page 6 (PDF-2,497Kb)
. - MicroBanking Bulletin, XacBank: From the Liability Side of the Balance Sheet, On how XacBank’s unusual and impressive growth has been financed and what the implications of this strategy are for the bank’s future.
Cheryl Frankiewcz and Marc de Sousa-Shields. August 2005. (PDF-222Kb)
. - Microfinance Experience Series, No 3, Mitigating the Impact of a Natural Disaster in Your MFIs, Microfinance can serve as an effective tool for reducing the vulnerability of poor clients during natural disasters.
Eileen Miamidian, Enterprising Solutions. July 2005. (PDF-167Kb)
. - Techniques financieres et developpement, Issue No. 78, Le financement des institutions de microfinance : le chemin vers l’investissement privé This article discusses the need for microfinance institutions (MFIs) to mobilize more private capital and analyzes the opportunities and challenges that this process can lead.
Isabelle Bonneau, Cheryl Frankiewicz, and Marc de Sousa Shields. March 2005. (PDF-383Kb)
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- Disaster Risk Management Working Paper Series No. 10, Surviving Disasters and Supporting Recovery: A Guidebook for Microfinance Institutions The goal of this report is to explore how financial services might help the poor to better manage natural disaster risk.
Eileen Miamidian, Margaret Arnold, Kiendel Burritt, and Marc Jacquand. February 2005 (PDF-463Kb)
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- Financing Microfinance Institutions: The Context for Transitions to Private Capital On the complex relationship between microfinance and its ability to attract private capital.
Enterprising Solutions, 2005. (PDF-500Kb)
. - Microfinance Experience Series, No. 2, Four Risks that Must Be Managed by Microfinance Institutions,
Till Bruett. November 2004. (PDF-155Kb)
. - Economic Strengthening to Improve the Well-Being of Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Workshop Report Report presenting ways to improve programming and increase collaborative action among organizations and specialists with expertise in economic/livelihood strengthening and those implementing programs to improve the safety and well-being of children affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.
Eileen Miamidian, Enterprising Solutions Global Consulting, and Agnieszka Sykes and Renuka Bery, Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA) Project. June 2004. (PDF-630Kb)
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- Intermediating Capital to MFIs: A Survey of Financial Intermediation to Microfinance Institutions This brief summarizes part of a longer report on the nature of capital flows to microfinance institutions (MFIs) in emerging markets.
Enterprising Solutions, 2003. (PDF-206Kb)
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- The Potential for Social Investment in Microfinance and Small Enterprise in Developing Countries A poll conducted by Enterprising Solutions suggests significant latent demand among both individual and institutional social investors for high impact social investments in microfinance institutions and small and medium sized businesses.
Enterprising Solutions, 2003. (PDF-185Kb)
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- Microfinance and Social Investment in Latin America Workshop Report Report on microfinance in Latin America and social investment in the U.S., and the potential for greater flows of social investment to Latin American MFIs, highlighting both the opportunities and the challenges ahead.
Enterprising Solutions and the Inter-American Development Bank, 2004.(PDF-318Kb)
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- Towards Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Emerging Markets, A review and inventory of the Social Investment Industry´s activities and potential in emerging markets. International Finance Corporation and Enterprising Solutions, 2003. (PDF-3Mb)Other Publications
. - Atrayendo Capital de Inversión Social Hacia América Latina Dentro de la industria de ISR el porcentaje destinado a los a los mercados emergentes aumentaría si se contara con los tipos correctos de fondos en mercado de capital para las inversiones denominadas de alto impacto.
Marc de Sousa-Shields, en MicroEmpresa Informe de Avances, Invierno, 2001.(PDF-431Kb)
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- Attracting Social Investment Capital to Latin America Investors have been challenged to find the appropriate socially responsible investments (SRI) particularly true of so-called high-impact funds that invest in microfinance institutions (MFIs) or small and micro enterprises.
Marc de Sousa-Shields, in MicroEnterprise Development Review, InterAmerican Development Bank, Winter 2001.(PDF-358Kb)
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- Capital Privado para las Microfinazas: Comó Abrir el Grifo Comparado con las decenas de millones de dólares proporcionados anualmente por los donantes multilaterales y nacionales a las instituciones microfinancieras de América Latina (IMF), el capital privado no es más que un goteo. ¿Cuál es la razón? ¿Qué hay que hacer para “abrir el grifo”?
Robert Pouliot, en MicroEmpresa Informe de Avances, Agosto 2002. (PDF-395Kb)
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- Financing Microfinance Take a look on the various routes to success and profitability of the microfinance instituitions (MFI´s) that are growing strongly and are profitable as a subsector of the financial services industry. MicroRate, 2002. (PDF-2.98Mb)Deuxième Edition, MicroRate et le Banque Inter Americana du Développement, 2002. (PDF-345Kb)
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- Institutional Metamorphosis: Transformation of Microfinance NGOs into Regulated Financial Institutions This document illustrates a range of transformation models and highlights the common issues specific to the transformation process of Microfinance non governmental organizations NGO´s into privately owned regulated institutions. Anita Campion and Victoria White, Microfinance Occasional Paper No.4. (PDF-829Kb)
. - Las Finanzas de las Microfinanzas Reporte que presenta diferentes enfoques del éxito y rentabilidad de las Instituciones Microfinancieras no-gubernamentales que están creciendo fuertemente y dando ganancias dentro del subsector de servicios financieros.
MicroRate, 2002. (PDF-300Kb)
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- Performance Indicators for Microfinance, MicroRate and the InterAmerican Development Bank: Technical Guide This report highlights 14 of the most commonly used indicators published by Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and two other rating agencies –MCRIL and PlaNet Rating.
MicroRate and the InterAmerican Development Bank, Third Edition, 2002. (Enlgish/Spanish/French)
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- Private Capital for Microfinance: How to Turn the Faucet On Compared to the tens of millions of dollars provided yearly by multilateral and national donors, private capital is no more than a trickle. Why is that? And what would it take to “turn the faucet on”? Robert Pouliot, in MicroEnterprise Development Review
InterAmerican Development Bank, August 2002. (PDF-404Kb)
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- Social Investors on the Sideline A new study finds socially responsible investors interested in MSEs but wary.
Marc de Sousa-Shields, in MicroEnterprise Americas, 2002. (PDF-386Kb)
Microfinance Experience Series, No. 2, Four Risks that Must Be Managed by Microfinance Institutions,
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Till Bruett. November 2004. (PDF-155Kb)
