Indy Telecom & Industrial Media

Excellent (and controversial) summary chart of the global macro-economic history of the past ~50 years by David Beckworth.

Of course, the chart has sparked some interesting takes by Paul Krugman and Alex Tabarrok, amongst others.

Here’s a slightly better attempt at creating a heat map, this time with the Google Gadgets API.

The heat map below is that of the Average Gross Yield (Nominal) of MFI institutions from various countries in the world. The yield is in percentage (i.e. .06=6% and .85=85%).

Data was sourced from MIX Market.

Lately, I’ve been playing around with some fun MFI data from around the world. In particular, I was curious to see what the Gross Loan Portfolio across various microfinance institutions were, and how they aggregated within each country of operation.

Luckily, I was able to source some rather excellent data from MIX Market.

Given this (and the fact that I’ve been playing around with Google’s Chart API for a while), I went ahead and created a little heat map of the global MFI rankings by Gross Loan Portfolio:

If you look at the above map, those countries with higher portfolios are in a darker shade of green and those with lower portfolios are in a lighter shade of green.

The list of the top all countries with more than 1% of the global MFI Gross Loan Portfolio is also listed below.

Debt as GDP % for the top 20 debtor nations — if you notice, despite our high debt, we are quite a bit lower on the totem pole.

Data was sourced from Index Mundi.