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The Microfinance Contagion Scenario

Harvard Business Review

Losses in AP will overwhelm many institutions' equity cushion. The average debt-to-equity ratio of the 10 largest MFIs in India is 7.06 , indicating an average 12% equity cushion. But just rescheduling debt payments may not be enough. At the prevailing ratios, management failed to act prudentially.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Return-on-equity hurdles threaten them all. Conversely, why market cigarettes? DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Brown noted a simple fact: Return on equity can be broken down into a three-part equation. Social media spending?

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