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Bolivia: Factors Influencing Poverty Outreach Among Microfinance Institutions

The Global Microscope 2013 report placed Bolivia second in the ranking of best business environments to foster microfinance, after Peru, citing a strong and supportive regulatory framework.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Stories of Responsible Finance Impact

This Case Study shows how IFC focused its earliest efforts to provide debt counseling for over-indebted clients in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A decade of implementation lessons learned from this first financial education and debt counseling initiative continues to be adapted, and is expanding into other parts of Europe and Central Asia.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: U-Plusu – An Innovative Approach to Hard Times

U-Plusu, a nonprofit, free, personal financial management counseling center, conducted a unique effort to provide debt mediation services and financial education opportunities.

China: Ombudsman Scheme With the Securities Regulatory Commission

The ombudsman service in China, supported by GIZ on behalf of BMZ and the China Securities Regulatory Commission, illustrates development of financial market infrastructure for dispute resolution through mediation.

China: Serving Frontier Regions Through Sustainable and Prudent Financial Inclusion

This case study uses recent projects in China to show how responsible finance is breaking new ground for IFC in microfinance, enhancing IFC's relationships with its existing partners, and providing demonstration results to share with potential new partners, within the microfinance sector and beyond.

Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Measuring Over-Indebtedness

IFC developed a market indebtedness assessment tool in Bosnia and Herzegovina that allows an assessment of the extent of the over-indebtedness problem.

Ecuador: Factors Influencing Poverty Outreach Among Microfinance Institutions

Ecuador has exhibited impressive resilience to the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008, given that two of its main sources of foreign earnings were simultaneously hit and that it is a dolarized economy and thus has constrained access to macroeconomic tools.

Ghana: Promising Results from a Concerted Approach With Multiple Stakeholders

A GIZ/BMZ initiative with multiple Ghanaian stakeholders shows the effectiveness and challenges of a multiplayer initiative across several responsible finance pillars.

India: A Comprehensive Approach Across All Three Pillars of Responsible Finance

The case from India describes IFC’s early initiative to advance responsible finance across all pillars since it began credit bureau work in 2009. In 2010, a multiyear collaboration began with industry networks and the Smart Campaign on client protection principles, risk-management, and financial awareness.

India: Putting the Focus on Borrowers – The Microfinance Story

This case study shares the lessons learned during the implementation of components of the Responsible Finance program of IFC’s advisory Services—and how that program is having a clear and defined impact on India’s microfinance industry.

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