Standardised, regularly available indicators to explain market developments for microfinance in Europe do not yet exist, or refer to Eastern Europe. Thus, we will focus in this section on the framework conditions for microfinance which are covered by the regularly updated Eurostat indicators for poverty and social inclusion, and by data on micro-enterprises. Specific aspects of the current crisis will be discussed later in this paper. In order to assess the achievement of the Europe 2020 poverty/social inclusion target, Eurostat measures the indicator “people at risk of poverty or social exclusion” as a union of the three sub- indicators “People living.
