A COVID Microfinance Liquidity Tour of Asia
This synthesis document brings together selected aspects of the COVID-19 Microfinance Liquidity Tour of Asia undertaken by M-CRIL over the past few months. In this document, the authors have compiled cross country data emerging from the M-CRIL Advisory Notes covering different types of microfinance service providers (MFSPs) listed below and provided some reflections on the analysis.
The data used for this document covers Cambodia’s large microfinance service providers – 9 MFSPs that are banks or microfinance deposit taking institutions (MDIs), India’s Small Finance Banks engaged in microlending (8), India’s largest MFIs (10), Myanmar’s large MFIs (10), Nepal’s Laghubitta Bittiya Sanstha (LBS, 8 largest deposit taking MFIs) and Pakistan’s Microfinance Banks (10).
