Microfinance institutions are institutions whose primary business model is to lend to (and possibly take deposits from) the poor, often using specialized methodologies such as group lending. The data collected using this institutional classification necessarily understate the scale of microfinance because many banks, cooperatives, and specialized state-owned institutions provide microfinance services as part of their activities. Every country, region and year the World Bank publishes for indicator FB.BNK.BRCH.MF.P5 (WDI Database Archives), delivered as a tidy table — country, ISO code, year and value — ready for analysis in Excel, R, Python or the Intigal AI workspace. Original compiler: Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and the World Bank Group’s "Financial Access 2010.".
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