Microfinance Data

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Permalink Reply by Narendran on November 30, 2009 at 3:48am

http://www.developmentdata.org/ This website might be useful to those persons to get data on inequality, trade, aid, education, agriculture, migration, health, FDI, population, governance, private sector and debt, and to websites that host and/or catalogue household survey data. These data might indirectly help us to design products for Microfinance.

Developmentdata.org provides easy access to free, reliable developing country data (data you must pay for are not listed here). The data linked to are provided by reputable international organisations and research institutions and data documentation is available for all the data.

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Permalink Reply by Evan Markel on November 30, 2009 at 5:40pm

Thank you for that link!! It looks like it will be very useful!!

Narendran said:

http://www.developmentdata.org/ This website might be useful to those persons to get data on inequality, trade, aid, education, agriculture, migration, health, FDI, population, governance, private sector and debt, and to websites that host and/or catalogue household survey data. These data might indirectly help us to design products for Microfinance.

Developmentdata.org provides easy access to free, reliable developing country data (data you must pay for are not listed here). The data linked to are provided by reputable international organisations and research institutions and data documentation is available for all the data.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Becker on December 1, 2009 at 9:12am

This is great! Thanks Narendran!

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Permalink Reply by Lyrana Hughes on February 7, 2010 at 1:42pm

Hello,

In my research experience and having worked with different data sets, I've found the Rating Fund to be reliable, easy to interpret, and standardized. The program's full name is the Microfinance Rating and Assessment Fund, and they publish the Microfinance Outlook Report http://www.microfinance.lu/231.html?&L=1
The Mixmarket data base is self-reported, and not to say that MFIs can't accurately report their data, but having a third party come in and do an assessment with standardized procedures has been useful and has provided accurate and comparable data.

Happy research!

Lyrana H
lyrana.hughes@colorado.edu

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Permalink Reply by Evan Markel on February 7, 2010 at 3:30pm

Thank you Lyrana!

I think that will be very helpful, and lets try to keep this Discussion going!

Evan

Lyrana Hughes said:

Hello,

In my research experience and having worked with different data sets, I've found the Rating Fund to be reliable, easy to interpret, and standardized. The program's full name is the Microfinance Rating and Assessment Fund, and they publish the Microfinance Outlook Report http://www.microfinance.lu/231.html?&L=1
The Mixmarket data base is self-reported, and not to say that MFIs can't accurately report their data, but having a third party come in and do an assessment with standardized procedures has been useful and has provided accurate and comparable data.

Happy research!

Lyrana H
lyrana.hughes@colorado.edu

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