Friday 26 September 2008

New Microfinance Map: See which MFIs operate in your city or town

At a Sa-Dhan conference yesterday on increasing financial resources flows to the microfinance sector, Sa-Dhan Executive Director Matthew Titus mentioned a new resource that details which MFIs operate in different cities throughout India. Upon review, it’s a pretty useful, interactive map. If one wants to learn about microfinance, or contact an institution for another reason, in a given city or state, this map let’s you know which MFIs you could reach out to.

More on the conference later (the part on private equity was very interesting), but for now, here’s a link to Sa-Dhan’s mapping resource.

2 comments:

R.D. said...

see this poster :
http://www.bouldermicrofinance.org/bergamowiki/index.php?title=Spatial_analysis_of_agricultural_finance_and_microfinance:_the_case_of_India

and this paper : http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1285740

Thiemo said...

a more recent try is on

http://freigeist.devmag.net/economics/602-microfinance-map-of-india-another-go.html

This is a microfinance heatmap of India, plotting headquarters of MFIs reporting data to the MIX Market.