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Building Rural Women’s Climate Resilience: Seven Business Drivers Delivering Commercial Value

As climate pressures rise, strengthening rural women’s resilience is critical for their livelihoods and for the long-term viability of the rural businesses that serve them. Through ABERA (Accelerating Business to Empower Rural Women in Agriculture), a CGAP and IDH collaboration, this paper identifies seven practical business drivers that simultaneously strengthen rural women’s climate resilience and business performance.

Financial Inclusion in Russia: The Demand-Side Perspective

This report follows up on a 2012 CGAP Financial Inclusion Landscaping study in Russia on the need for comprehensive and detailed data on financial inclusion—and exclusion—in Russia.

Landscaping Report: Financial Inclusion in Russia

This Landscaping Report on the state of financial inclusion in Russia is based on CGAP’s research conducted during April – September 2012.

Volume Growth and Valuation Contraction

This fourth annual Global Microfinance Equity Valuation Survey Report provides benchmarks for the valuation of microfinance equity, both private and publicly listed, to promote market transparency and identify industry trends.

CGAP-MIX 2010 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Microfinance Analysis and Benchmarking Report

This report explores how MFIs, policy makers, and funders in ECA have begun to adjust to the new risks and challenges presented by the 2009 twin economic and financial crises.

CGAP-MIX 2009 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Microfinance Analysis and Benchmarking Report

This report, jointly produced by MIX and CGAP, analyzes how MFIs in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region performed and coped with heightened risks in 2008.

Regulation of Branchless Banking in Russia

This update of CGAP’s 2008 “Notes on Regulation of Branchless Banking in Russia” incorporates research conducted by CGAP in January 2010.

CGAP-MIX 2008 Eastern Europe and Central Asia Microfinance Analysis and Benchmarking Report

A central theme of the report is to address this variety in the levels of microfinance development and provide an overview of the key trends in the general level of development, policy environment, funding sources, external investments and the performance of microfinance institutions.