Microfinance
- The use of control groups in impact assessments for microfinance
- P. Mosley / Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1998
- Looks into the barriers which are encountered in the use of impact assessments to evaluate microfinance programs, more specifically the difficulties encountered in the control group, a method employed to compare a population that had ...
- Microfinance in the Wake of Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities
- K. Doyle / microLINKS,, 1998
- Overview of the rapidly evolving practice of microfinance and microenterprise development in post-conflict situations Documents the surprisingly few preconditions these programs consider essential to initiate a microenterprise ...
- Assessing the efficiency and outreach of micro-finance schemes
- Enterprise and Cooperative Development Department, Social Finance Unit, ILO, 1996
- Focuses on the ability of credit unions to efficiently handle loans to microenterprises, by sighting both their strengths and weaknesses. The discussion begins with a historical background on credit unions and microenterprises, follow...
- What effects have one of the largest providers of micro-credit to the poor in Bangladesh had on poverty?
- H. Zaman / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Presents the main argument that micro-credit contributes to mitigating a number of factors that contribute to vulnerability, whereas the impact on income-poverty is a function of borrowing beyond a certain loan threshold and to a cert...
- Seven recipes for success in “unorthodox” microfinance
- D.C. Richardson / Microbanking Bulletin, 2000
- Argues for a radical reform of the orthodox approach of using financial services to achieve poverty alleviation. prospect of a competitive market with different institutional players Many credit unions are sceptical of conventi...
- Microcredit in China: digest of externally funded projects (China Briefing)
- China Development Brief, 1999
- What effects have one of the largest providers of micro-credit to the poor in Bangladesh had on poverty?
- H. Zaman / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Presents the main argument that micro-credit contributes to mitigating a number of factors that contribute to vulnerability, whereas the impact on income-poverty is a function of borrowing beyond a certain loan threshold and to a cert...
- Seven recipes for success in “unorthodox” microfinance
- D.C. Richardson / Microbanking Bulletin, 2000
- Argues for a radical reform of the orthodox approach of using financial services to achieve poverty alleviation. prospect of a competitive market with different institutional players Many credit unions are sceptical of conventi...
- Microcredit in China: digest of externally funded projects (China Briefing)
- China Development Brief, 1999
- 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
