Microfinance
- Measuring Microcredit Delinquency: Ratios can be Harmful to Your Health
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1999
- Paper discusses monitoring methods for micro-credit instititions, particulary in relation to loan repayment A misapplied credit portfolio quality measure often conceals a repayment crisis from micro-finance managers, sometimes ...
- Explains critical institutional and market analysis required of an MFI in making the decision whether or not to expand its product line.
- M. Brand / microLINKS,, 1999
- The document picks up after the MFI has evaluated the feasibility of introducing a new product and is ready to proceed with the development process, which includes design, testing, and product launch. Specifically, this documen...
- Microfinance in Post-Conflict Situations:Towards Guiding Principles for Action
- G. Nagarajan / Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1999
- Offers a framework for implementing microfinance activities in post-conflict situations, given the pre and post-conflict environment. The decisions of stakeholders are guided by their understanding of the situation that shape their ob...
- Five assessment tools that practitioners can use to gather information about their programs - and step by step instructions for using them
- Assessing the Impact of Microenterprise Services, USAID, 2000
- The manual was developed by the SEEP Network. It was developed by and for practitioners and, as such, responds to the particular needs and challenges they face in determining how their programs and services are affecting clients. ...
- Impact of Access to Credit on the Poor: Research Design and Baseline Survey for a Longitudinal Study
- R.T. Chua / Banking with the Poor Network, 1998
- Presents the baseline survey for a study of the impact of microfinance services offered by Alalay sa Kaunlaran sa Gitnang Luzon, Inc (ASKI). ASKI is a microfinance institution based in Cabanatuan City in the Philippines, and is a memb...
- The impact of three microfinance programs in Uganda
- C. Barnes; G. Gaile; R. Kibombo / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2001
- This assessment of three USAID-financed microfinance programs in Uganda centers on the impacts of participation and whom the programs reach. The assessment focuses on the clients of FINCA, FOCCAS, and PRIDE. It covers clients and a no...
- State-owned Development Banks in Micro-finance
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1997
- This note seeks to inform policymakers and other government officials about the process of transformation of the Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) unit desa (or village banking) system, and identify key factors that led to the birth of a su...
- How CGAP Member Donors Fund Micro-finance Institutions
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1999
- This FOCUS Note emanated from CGAP's Secretariat fielding the same questions from numerous micro-finance practitioners world wide: "How do the Member Donors of CGAP fund micro-finance institutions? What are the structures, funding ins...
- Cost Allocation For Multi-service Micro-finance Institutions
- B.S. Helms / Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1998
- Presents a series of questions MFI managers should ask themselves about allocating costs and assets among costs centers. Using examples from the field and a hypothetical case called Microfem, the paper explores alternative answers to ...
- Management Information Systems for Microfinance Institutions
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1998
- Address common pitfalls in MIS design by targeting the two key audiences involved in an MIS-information users and systems developers. Specifically, the MIS handbook: Defines information needs and flows; Identi...
- Five assessment tools that practitioners can use to gather information about their programs - and step by step instructions for using them
- Assessing the Impact of Microenterprise Services, USAID, 2000
- The manual was developed by the SEEP Network. It was developed by and for practitioners and, as such, responds to the particular needs and challenges they face in determining how their programs and services are affecting clients. ...
- Impact of Access to Credit on the Poor: Research Design and Baseline Survey for a Longitudinal Study
- R.T. Chua / Banking with the Poor Network, 1998
- Presents the baseline survey for a study of the impact of microfinance services offered by Alalay sa Kaunlaran sa Gitnang Luzon, Inc (ASKI). ASKI is a microfinance institution based in Cabanatuan City in the Philippines, and is a memb...
- The impact of three microfinance programs in Uganda
- C. Barnes; G. Gaile; R. Kibombo / Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2001
- This assessment of three USAID-financed microfinance programs in Uganda centers on the impacts of participation and whom the programs reach. The assessment focuses on the clients of FINCA, FOCCAS, and PRIDE. It covers clients and a no...
- State-owned Development Banks in Micro-finance
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1997
- This note seeks to inform policymakers and other government officials about the process of transformation of the Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) unit desa (or village banking) system, and identify key factors that led to the birth of a su...
- How CGAP Member Donors Fund Micro-finance Institutions
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1999
- This FOCUS Note emanated from CGAP's Secretariat fielding the same questions from numerous micro-finance practitioners world wide: "How do the Member Donors of CGAP fund micro-finance institutions? What are the structures, funding ins...
- Cost Allocation For Multi-service Micro-finance Institutions
- B.S. Helms / Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1998
- Presents a series of questions MFI managers should ask themselves about allocating costs and assets among costs centers. Using examples from the field and a hypothetical case called Microfem, the paper explores alternative answers to ...
- Management Information Systems for Microfinance Institutions
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1998
- Address common pitfalls in MIS design by targeting the two key audiences involved in an MIS-information users and systems developers. Specifically, the MIS handbook: Defines information needs and flows; Identi...
- Credit where it's due: Microcredit Summit (Interaction)
- Interaction [American Council for Voluntary International Action], 1999
- Microcredit interest rates
- Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1996
- Description of a model for deciding on an interest rate which makes a micro-finance lender economically sustainable. Includes worked examples and a downloadable speadsheet for calculations
- Format for appraisal of microfinance institutions
- R.P. Christen; B. Helms; R. Rosenberg / Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 1998
- This Appraisal Format facilitates a complete diagnosis of a micro-finance institutions operations - ranging from governance to funding methodology to financial performance. It assumes a high level of participation on the part of MFI s...
- India Post
- Indian Government department running postal services, part of Department of Post, Ministry of Communications & IT.
- Pro Mujer
- Women's development and microfinance organisation in Latin America
- Global Information on MicroInsurance
- Resources and services for microinsurance
