2022 Microfinance Index Top Performers
Ranked across 18 different indicators, these MFIs scored the highest on 60 Decibels' 2022 Microfinance Index.
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Financial Inclusion
Benchmarks
Access
The degree to which the MFIs in our Index are serving previously underserved clients
Household Impact
The impact MFIs loans have on clients’ quality of life, their ability to invest or cover household expenditures, and the degree to which clients can achieve their financial goals.
Resilience
The degree to which clients are financially prepared for an unforeseen economic shock, and the impact the MFIs loan had on the clients’ preparedness.
What we offer
Financial inclusion survey products, ready to use with accompanying performance benchmarks.
Microfinance Index
Our ground-breaking Microfinance (MFI) Index offers a simple answer to a complicated question: “what does social impact mean for microfinance institutions?”
Microfinance Index 
CDFI Impact Performance
Hear from CDFI borrowers to map the experience and impact of receiving a loan. Gain new insights on customer outcomes and challenges.
CDFI Impact Performance 
Fintech Impact Index
Our Fintech Impact Index gets under the hood of the impact Fintechs have on customers’ lives, giving you the data you need to ensure your Fintech is creating positive change.
Fintech Impact Index Financial Inclusion Insights
The secret to lifting children out of poverty? Empowering women through microfinance
Since its founding, VisionFund has focused on serving women borrowers to uplift children out of poverty. Between September 2021 and September 2022, 60 Decibels interviewed 2,500+ clients, supporting 10,000+ children, across Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Guatemala, Mexico, and Rwanda.
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LeapFrog’s Emerging Wealth and Health Index 2022
60 Decibels surveyed around 4,000 emerging consumers across eight emerging markets to build LeapFrog's Emerging Wealth and Health Index, a fascinating survey of the world's impact investing needs in two key sectors.
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Omidyar Network India’s Listening Report 2022
What we learned from the people ONI's entrepreneurs serve.
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60 Decibels Microfinance Index (2022)
A social performance report of 72 MFI organizations, collected through the voices of 17,956 clients.
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Microfinance Results Depend A Lot On Where Borrowers Live
A recent study of microfinance borrowers shows that, on the whole, their loans led to improvements in their standard of living. But the impact also depended on the region and country those people inhabit.
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Experience of Polio Vaccinators with Digital Payments
We surveyed vaccinators who participated in the polio campaigns in Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, and Republic of the Congo.
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New York Forward Loan Fund Insights
More than 25 Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) came together during the pandemic to build recovery programs that expanded access to credit for un- and under-banked small businesses.
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