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The Microfinance Contagion Scenario

Harvard Business Review

But as information trickles out about how bad the repayment situation in AP is, a plausible global contagion scenario is emerging. 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.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

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. Thus Brown not only sowed the seeds of the today's hated silos, he also set three "runaways" in motion.

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