In this video series-1, Mark Schreiner, Director, Microfinance Risk Management, explains what exactly poverty scoring means and how could it benefit MFIs. Highlighting the usefulness of Poverty Scoring to MFIs and tells how poverty scoring helps micro lenders to measure how poor their clients are in a quantitative way. He also underlines how investors can benefit from such scoring. Poverty Scoring is a direct, simple and accurate way of measurement that allows organisations to use it as management tool. He further emphasises the usefulness of poverty scoring for social performance management.