Making Microfinance Transparent: ACCION Policy Paper on Transparency

How is ACCION's commitment to transparency realised?

12 pages

Financial transparency - the widespread availability of relevant, accurate and comparable information about an institution - is increasingly recognized as a cornerstone in the evolution of microfinance. Transparency opens the door for microfinance to become integrated into financial systems because the participants and guardians of the financial system demand high quality information to guide informed judgments about MFIs.

This policy paper describes how ACCION's commitment to transparency is realized

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About this Publication

By Rhyne, E.

Published

October 2002

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