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CGAP Newsflash: Latest Publications from CGAP

Make sure you didn't miss any of CGAP's newest publications:

Where Do Impact Investing and Microfinance Meet?
Mayada El-Zoghbi and Henry Gonzalez
June 2013
Today, there are more than 300 impact investment funds, each with varying expectations regarding social and financial returns. This Brief quantifies the size and composition of the impact investing sector in developing countries and demonstrates that microfinance makes up close to three-fourths of total impact investing assets under management.

CGAP Strategic Directions, 2014-2018
May 2013
CGAP's next five-year strategy is the result of a 15-month-long consultation process during which more than 300 stakeholders contributed insights in a variety of forums. This strategy document will guide CGAP's contributions to improving poor people's lives through greater financial inclusion in the next five years.

Advancing Financial Inclusion through Use of Market Archetypes
Xavier Faz and Ted Moser
May 2013
Digital cash brings promising opportunities for financial inclusion, but successes have been difficult to extrapolate and sharing lessons across markets remains a challenge. This Focus Note provides a framework that regulators, policy makers, financial service providers, donors, and investors can use to identify the most productive next steps.

Segmentation of Smallholder Households
Robert Peck Christen and Jamie Anderson
May 2013
With an estimated 2.5 billion people living in 500 million smallholder farm households in the developing world, agricultural production plays a powerful role in poverty reduction. This Focus Note differentiates this large and diverse population into three segments determined by commonalities in how they engage with markets and how those markets are organized.

Trends in Sharia-Compliant Financial Inclusion
Mayada El-Zoghbi and Michael Tarazi
March 2013
An estimated 1.28 million clients use Sharia-compliant microfinance services globally, a four-fold increase since 2006. The overall supply of Islamic microfinance products is still small relative to the conventional microfinance sector, but it is growing rapidly.

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