InSight #3: Making Microfinance Transparent: ACCION Policy Paper on Transparency
By Elisabeth Rhyne - Published: October 2002
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 their informed judgments about microfinance institutions. This policy paper describes how ACCION's commitment to transparency is realized.
