Microfinance
- Practical advice for better access to finance in rural areas
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Within the rural sector different groups and categories of individual require services designed to meet their particular needs. This practitioner’s guide covers different financial services, products and methodologies. It takes you through different types of financial service providers and discusses good practices.
Latest Additions
- Why Chinese farmers choose informal financial associations more than formal financial institutions
- ( Y. Yuan;Y. Hu;P. Gao / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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Informal credit markets are very active in China. This paper investigates farmers' borrowings in China from both formal and informal sources with higher/lower interest, by looking into both demand ...
Microfinance institutions in Malawi
- ( E.W. Chirwa / Chancellor College, University of Malawi , 2002)
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Microfinance has been one of the strategies for poverty alleviation in developing countries. This paper attempts to take stock of the microfinance or micro credit revolution in Malawi, including as...
- Women’s participation in microfinance changing gender relations in Afghanistan
- ( S. Zand / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit , 2010)
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This case study is a part of a larger study that explores women’s participation in different development programmes and projects in Afghanistan. The current paper looks at women’s parti...
- Using India Post to increase banking services for the poor
- ( India Post , 2010)
- The India Post network has over 155,000 branches - twice as many as the outreach of all commercial banks in India put together. This Report, produced by an inter-ministerial committee on financial inc...
- Effective service delivery to women in remote rural areas in Peru
- ( Pro Mujer , 2010)
- Pro Mujer is an organisation in Latin America supporting women with loans, healthcare and training. This is the first of a new series called: Product Innovation Notes, communicating lessons from their...
- Access to credit not necessarily a determinant of poverty reduction
- ( A. Diagne;M. Zeller / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2001)
- Poor rural households in developing countries lack adequate access to credit services. Because the poor do not meet the traditional criteria for borrowing, financial institutions perceived them as bad...
- Can microcredit for women tackle poverty in the EU?
- ( Women in Development Europe , 2009)
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Inequality in economic growth
- ( Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations , 2009)
Long-standing inequalities in the gender distribution of economic and financial resources have placed women at a disadvantage relative to men in their capability to participate in, contribute to an...
- Tools for evaluating NGO impact in the area of savings and credit
- ( NGO Impact on Development, Empowerment and Actions , 2007)
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The NGO-IDEAS impact tool box was developed to support NGOs working in the area of savings and credit, in the context of South India. The approach is based on some principles that can applied ...
- An overview of Islamic microfinance and challenges to its growth
- ( M. Tarazi;X. Reille / Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest , 2008)
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Islamic microfinance has the potential to expand access to finance to unprecedented levels throughout the Muslim world where a large majority of people do not use formal financial services. Even wh...
