whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Hedging and bundling; improving the efficiency of microlending
(Analysis/Analysis)

...Microfinancing solutions work in an aggregated credit model. Grameen has perfected the model but, largely, all microfinance banks work in the same way. A self-help group comes into being; impoverish...

2. Development organisations need to engage with ratings agencies
(Analysis/Analysis)

... the Grameen Bank, recent elevation in winning the Nobel Peace Prize has dramatically increased the interest in microfinance solutions to poverty.  Organisations across the globe are reinventing ...

3. Research Reports, eBooks and Ideas
(Static Content)

...nyans for no good reason at all. Wikineur: the thousand rand challenge Wikineur.org Microfinance and microenterprise are now recognised as being foundational to generating ...