This paper describes a new index of the quality of the business environment for microfinance institutions (the Global Microscope on the Microfinance Business Environment). Regressions are used to validate the index by linking it and its sub-components to microfinance outcomes. The main findings...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the financial operations of the state guaranty associations in the property/casualty field to assess their adequacy to meet future insolvencies. The extraordinary insurer insolvencies in the last half of the 1 980s receive special attention. Proposals for...

Die Autoren beschreiben und diskutieren das Programm einer Nichtregierungsorganisation (NRO) in Gambia, das zum Ziel hat, die einheimischen informellen Spar- und Kreditvereinigungen mit der formalen Finanzinstitution zu verbinden. Die sorgfältige institutionelle Ausgestaltung durch die NRO...