Microfinance
- Tools for evaluating NGO impact in the area of savings and credit
- NGO Impact on Development, Empowerment and Actions, 2007
- 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 in other contexts. The tool box gives...
- An overview of Islamic microfinance and challenges to its growth
- M. Tarazi; X. Reille / Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest, 2008
- 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 where services are available, some peop...
- Assessing finance accessibility for female migrant workers in Indonesia
- World Bank, 2008
- A significant proportion of the Indonesian population are migrant workers, 80% of whom are female migrant workers (FMW) seeking employment overseas. This paper analyses issues related to access to finance for FMWs. It surveys current ...
- Microfinance and social goals
- 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 exponential expansion of the ...
- From microfinance to rural development: the potential of rural finance
- G. Athmer / Rural Finance Learning Center, 2009
- While literature on microfinance best practices is readily available these days, less is known about the broader field of rural finance. Given their expertise in both microfinance and rural developme...
- Institutional approaches to increase the representation of women professionals in microfinance
- E. Lynch / Women's World Banking, 2009
- Women’s leadership has been central to microfinance from the inception of the industry. Many of the industry’s pioneers were women, and as microfinance institutions grew, women were well represented in management. To this ...
- Collecting savings deposits is critical to the continued growth and evolution of the microfinance sector
- A. Counts; P. Meriweather / Grameen Foundation USA, 2008
- Mobilising savings will empower depositors, strengthen microfinance institutions (MFIs), and alleviate poverty in ways that lending alone cannot. Asserting deposit insurance is a possible way to catalyse support for expanding access t...
- The drivers of equity valuations on microfinance institutions
- N. O’Donohoe / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2009
- 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 change, but the long-term outlook for equ...
- Social returns in microfinance management and investment
- J. Chen; N. Biggar / Grameen Foundation USA, 2008
- As more investors enter into the microfinance market, it is increasingly clear that they are not binary - either purely social or purely commercial. Most investors fit into a spectrum where the role of social performance along this co...
- The expansion of financial services to rural area
- G. Gobezie / Academic Journals, 2008
- The poor need sustainable access to financial services to be out of poverty; however, there are keys issues that limit the expansion of the services. The main reason is structural problems of market failures and absence of markets as ...
- Assessing finance accessibility for female migrant workers in Indonesia
- World Bank, 2008
- A significant proportion of the Indonesian population are migrant workers, 80% of whom are female migrant workers (FMW) seeking employment overseas. This paper analyses issues related to access to finance for FMWs. It surveys current ...
- Microfinance and social goals
- 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 exponential expansion of the ...
- From microfinance to rural development: the potential of rural finance
- G. Athmer / Rural Finance Learning Center, 2009
- While literature on microfinance best practices is readily available these days, less is known about the broader field of rural finance. Given their expertise in both microfinance and rural developme...
- Institutional approaches to increase the representation of women professionals in microfinance
- E. Lynch / Women's World Banking, 2009
- Women’s leadership has been central to microfinance from the inception of the industry. Many of the industry’s pioneers were women, and as microfinance institutions grew, women were well represented in management. To this ...
- Collecting savings deposits is critical to the continued growth and evolution of the microfinance sector
- A. Counts; P. Meriweather / Grameen Foundation USA, 2008
- Mobilising savings will empower depositors, strengthen microfinance institutions (MFIs), and alleviate poverty in ways that lending alone cannot. Asserting deposit insurance is a possible way to catalyse support for expanding access t...
- The drivers of equity valuations on microfinance institutions
- N. O’Donohoe / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2009
- 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 change, but the long-term outlook for equ...
- Social returns in microfinance management and investment
- J. Chen; N. Biggar / Grameen Foundation USA, 2008
- As more investors enter into the microfinance market, it is increasingly clear that they are not binary - either purely social or purely commercial. Most investors fit into a spectrum where the role of social performance along this co...
- The expansion of financial services to rural area
- G. Gobezie / Academic Journals, 2008
- The poor need sustainable access to financial services to be out of poverty; however, there are keys issues that limit the expansion of the services. The main reason is structural problems of market failures and absence of markets as ...
- Practical guide to improving access to finance in rural areas
- T. de Klerk / Network Learning, 2009
- Rural finance refers to financial services such as savings, lending, insurance and remittance services provided by a variety of actors. These actors can be friends, relatives, shopkeepers, traders, money lenders, traditional savings a...
- A framework for risk management from a market research perspective
- M. Matul; D. Szubert / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2005
- This briefing provides microfinance practitioners with a framework to develop risk management from a market research perspective. It looks at how an understanding of vulnerability to poverty is crucial to develop microfinancial servic...
- 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
