The purpose of this report is to review common credit risk management techniques used in a sample of Latin American financial institutions with agricultural portfolios, identify the factors that contribute to successful credit risk management as measured by several key financial performance...

Este informe examina una muestra de 42 instituciones financieras con carteras agropecuarias en América Latina, e identifica cuáles son los principales riesgos percibidos, cómo evalúan los riesgos, cómo los manejan, y cuán efectivas son en el proceso.

Este documento contiene información primaria recolectada por el Fondo Multilateral de Inversiones (FOMIN) además de información relevante de la región de fuentes secundarias presentada en cuatro categorías: estructura, penetración, entorno de negocios y desempeño en microfinanzas. Esta...

This working paper is being published with the sole objective of contributing to the debate of a topic of importance to the region, and to elicit comments and suggestions from interested parties.

Esta nota resume los resultados de una reciente investigación sobre microfinanzas realizada por el BID. Incluye información acerca de las actividades de microfinanzas en 25 países1, así como una revisión inicial de las tasas de interés efectivas cobradas a los clientes de este sector.

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 subcomponents to microfinance outcomes. The main findings...

Over the past decade, the repressive legal and regulatory environment in transition economies has received considerable attention in the literature. In Russia, this framework has resulted in an environment in which rules and regulations govern almost all aspects of economic activity. The...

The impact of public and private transfers on credit markets has not been sufficiently studied and understanding any spill over effects caused by these transfers may be useful for policy makers. This paper estimates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) and remittances received by poor...