http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/09/19/a-health-check-for-microfinance-banks Comments for "A Health Check for Microfinance Banks" en http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/09/19/a-health-check-for-microfinance-banks <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-4"><span class="flexinode-timestamp-13"> September 20, 2007 - 17:00, </span> <span class="flexinode-textfield-14"> Business Daily</span> <div class="flexinode-textfield-15"> A Health Check for Microfinance Banks</div><br> <div class="form-item"> <label>Story Link:</label> <a href="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=3134&amp;Itemid=5821">http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=3134&amp;Itemid=5821</a> </div> <div class="flexinode--41"> <strong>Teaser: </strong><br /> A small enterprise trader at the Maasai Market in Nairobi who fits the microfinance bank clientele profile. The MFBs have to consciously evaluate their strengths and plummet into a poor clientele with a wit and will to take risk while operating under commercial business principles.<br class="clear" /></div> <div class="flexinode-textarea-6"> 20-September-2007: Recently, Business Daily ran what would easily be referred to as an excellent piece on Microfinance Banking in Kenya, and generally Africa.<br /><br />Notwithstanding the admiration there is for the current progress that has been made by the parties working on the Microfinance Bank initiative in Kenya, there is a skill-gap that I am certain if filled will guarantee a strong policy environment and ensure we are on the right track in achieving Africa’s solution to poverty.<br class="clear" /></div> </div> http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2007/09/19/a-health-check-for-microfinance-banks#comment Microfinance Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:15:55 -0400 Ana Escalante 4533 at http://www.nextbillion.net