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Viewpoint: The Critical Role of Microfinance Institutions Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) have been critical in providing financial services for these vulnerable people and like their clients, MFIs are negatively affected by the economic impacts of the crisis.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Technology
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Building Back Better: How the COVID-19 Crisis Could Lead to an Integration of Health Care and Finance
Since COVID-19 started, the health care world has been talking about finance, trying to lessen the economic damage of lockdowns. And the financial world has been talking about health, launching new products that address the challenges of the pandemic. Chris Wolff explores how the two industries can use their combined response to rebuild in a way that leaves the world in a better place than it was before.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care, Technology
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Financial Inclusion in the Wake of COVID-19
Lack of access to financial tools—like credit and savings accounts—inhibit socio-economic mobility for individuals living in poverty across the globe. For approximately the past 40 years, there has been a movement toward financial inclusion for emerging markets such as those found in sub-Saharan Africa, but the progress made thus far is now facing a grim outlook due to the global coronavirus pandemic. In this post, we will explore imminent threats posed to financial inclusion that are anticipated to trickle down as the effects of COVID-19 continue to be felt around the globe.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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Indian MFIs See 50% Recovery in June as Rural Borrowers Avoid Using Moratorium
A majority of MFI borrowers have the option to avail moratorium till the end of August.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Microfinance Industry Most Vulnerable to Lockdown and Moratorium in India
As first order impact, collection cycle may be hit, while lack of moratorium-relief from banks may squeeze out liquidity
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- South Asia
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Covid-19 attack limits MFI outreach
Microfinance firms are slowing down new loan disbursements in the country’s rural heartland as a direct fallout of the coronavirus outbreak. They are also facing non-repayment from borrowers whose earnings may take a hit as the country goes into lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- coronavirus, MFIs, microfinance
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Viewpoint: The Markets Are Collapsing: Will Microfinance Save Us Again?
Global markets have evolved, and the reality is that we are now more connected than ever. Should investors look to microfinance again as a safe haven? In order to answer that, we need to understand how microfinance and impact investing are connected and how they are different.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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A Spotlight on Effective and Inclusive Savings
Saving for an unpredictable future is one of the few genuinely universal life tenets. But for much of the past 40 years, the microfinance sector has focused overwhelmingly on credit. As Sam Mendelson and Daniel Rozas at e-MFP explain, that's one reason the 2020 European Microfinance Award is focused on “Encouraging Effective & Inclusive Savings.” They discuss the benefits of savings in introducing the €100,000 award – which is open for applications until April 15.
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- Finance
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