Does microfinance still work? The theme of the 2017 edition of the Microfinance Barometer is undoubtedly provocative. This question assumes that microfinance has “worked” in the past and raises another question: worked in what sense, exactly? This question is not new. A lot of effort (and money) has been invested to […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has granted a new three-year loan of €1.9 million to the Cambodian microfinance institution LOLC Cambodia. This loan is the fifth granted by the Foundation to this institution (formerly TPC), a partner since 2010. With this new loan, LOLC Cambodia, whose mission […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has just granted a new loan to the Indonesian microfinance institution Komida, for an amount of 2.1 million eruos over a period of three years. This loan is the fourth granted by the Foundation to Komida, a partner since 2011. With this new investment, the amount of the Foundation's commitments to […]
In Côte d'Ivoire, deposits in microfinance institutions (MFIs) have increased by 3,47% in 5 years, rising from 72 billion in 2012 to 250 billion FCFA at the end of September 2017, according to figures from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. This development was accompanied by an increase in outstanding credit on […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has granted an initial loan in Indonesian rupiah equivalent to 840,000 euros, over a period of three years, to the microfinance institution KSP TLM. KSP TLM is a microfinance institution created in 2011 by the TLM Foundation to support local communities through initiatives […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has made its first investment in Montenegro by granting a €500,000 loan over a three-year period to the microfinance institution Monte Credit, which belongs to Agroinvest Holding, a subsidiary of Vision Fund International. Monte Credit Montenegro's target clients are poor households, […]
