Biannual EMN magazine “Microfinance Europe”

EMN’s biannual magazine aims at providing clear insights into European microfinance programmes with a specific focus on policy measures in support of the development of the sector.
 
Its in-depth articles offer up-to-date commentaries on what is happening in the different European countries, how policies and practices are implemented and evolving and what recommendations can be made by practitioners, researchers and academics to promote microfinance and microenterprise development in the European Union.
 
EMN gathers articles from different sources. The content of each article is the sole responsibility of the author(s) and does not necessarily reflect the views of EMN.
 

N° 1 : April 2007

Index:

  • Regulating microfinance
  • UK Policy developments
  • Regulation for MFIs in Romania
  • Improving institutional framework for self-employed in France
  • Immigrants and microcredit
  • Policy measures for microfinance in Europe

N° 2 : December 2007

Index:

  • The gap in support services for microenterprises
  • Partnerships for inclusive financial markets
  • Gender Equality in Access to Microfinance in Spain
  • European National Action Plans
  • for Social Inclusion and microfinance
  • Funding Self-Employment
  • The Role of Consumer Credit
  • The Regulation of microcredit in Europe

N° 3 : June 2008

Index:

  • Progress in social performance by microfinance and its application in Europe
  • The triple bottom line for microfinance
  • Measuring the social performance of Adie
  • Social ratings: Assessing the capacity of microfinance institutions to put their social mission into practice
  • Social performance management for microenterprise development in Slovakia

N°4 : December 2008 - Microfinance and Financial Literacy

Index:

  • Financial education policy of the European Commission
  • Diverse, dynamic, uncoordinated: Financial Literacy in the EU
  • The role of financial institutions: an approach from the Spanish Savings Banks
  • UK Experience and learnings on financial literacy
  • Financial Education in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the New
  • Independent States (NIS): An Example
  • Financial Literacy, Education for Life in Central America

N°5: June 2009 - Sustainability of Microfinance in Europe

Index:

  • Sustainability of Microfinance in Europe: a general reflection
  • The Debate
  • Can MFIs in Western Europe be Sustainable?
  • Microfinance in Western Europe and sustainability: dream or lack of ambition?
  • The road to sustainability
  • The Microfinance Operations Sustainability’s Triple Bottom Line Characteristics in Eastern Europe : A Case Study on the Romanian Microfinance Sector

N°6: December 2009 - 2010 for Social Inclusion

Index:

  • Social inclusion and microfinance – a lot to offer and a lot of potential
  • The Debate
  • Microfinance and social objectives: how can MFIs demonstrate that they are socially useful?
  • Taking microcredit to the next step: the PerMicro experience
  • Reaching out to the hard-to-reach: A task of institutional capacity building in European non-bank MFIs

N° 7: juin 2010 - Banks and Microfinance in Europe

Index:

  • The Debate
  • Gaining scale in microcredit - can banks make it happen?
  • Banks in microfinance - the German experience  
  • The role of banks in European microfinance – the Spanish experience
  • France: Involve banks in microcredit online, or through specialised organisations?- The issue is not resolved
  • Microfinance in Europe at a crossroads