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- Putting the social into performance management: state of practice
- ( Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2008)
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Microfinance has proven successful but if it is to continue to be viable and receive support, microfinance institutions (MFIs) must be able to demonstrate that they are fulfilling their mission as ...
- Social enterprise in microfinance industry: what does it mean?
- ( A. Graziosi (ed) / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2008)
- The growing of the Microfinance Institution (MFI) movement has created great expectations because the MFIs have been seen as an instrument to tackle poverty and promote micro entrepreneurship. However...
- The global financial crisis and its impact on microfinance
- ( E. Littlefield;C. Kneiding / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2009)
- Although the crisis still has deep shock-resistant roots, microfinance now has many more links to domestic and international financial markets, and as a result today’s financial crisis is more l...
- Realising the potential of branchless banking: challenges ahead
- ( Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2008)
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In the traditional banking environment of high cost proprietary distribution channels and back office systems, the corresponding high direct and indirect costs to customers have resulted in very li...
- Shedding Light on microfinance equity valuation: past and present
- ( N. O’Donohoe / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2009)
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Larger institutions, especially those with diversified funding sources, such as retail deposits, are best positioned to manage the effects of economic and financial contraction. Valuations may chan...
- Microfinance for urban poverty reduction
- ( L. Mayoux;M. Jiri;M. Cerqueira / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2002)
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How can micro-finance programmes avoid some of the common pitfalls associated with them? How can they integrate strong strategies for poverty reduction and women’s empowerment? This One World...
- Field manual: supporting microfinance through grants in post-crisis settings
- ( E. Ersenkal,;J. Wolf Fellow, / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2007)
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This field manual offers guidance to small grant program managers on supporting microfinance institutions (MFIs) in countries recovering from conflict or natural disaster through small, short-term ...
- Microfinance and women’s empowerment
- ( R.B. Swain / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2008)
- This paper presents evidence on the Self Help Group bank linkage programme in India. It examines the impact of microfinance on women’s empowerment and finds that microfinance: ...
- Microfinance, rural livelihoods, and women’s empowerment in Uganda
- ( A Lakwo / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2006)
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This book on empowerment evaluation research explores the wider facilitatory impacts of microfinance on the empowerment of married rural women in Nebbi district, northwestern Uganda. The author fin...
- Regulating transformational branchless banking: mobile phones and other technology to increase access to finance
- ( R. Sandrey;H.G. Jensen;O. Oyewumi / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP , 2007)
- Branchless banking spreads quickly in developing countries. Information and communication technologies (ICT) and non-bank retail channels such as post offices provide access to finance to many people....
