Microfinance
- 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...
- Cash grants enable older people to start and strengthen livelihood activities
- HelpAge International, 2008
- This report provides an account of a livelihood cash grant programme implemented in Banda Aceh in the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami. It shows that older people are still willing and able to work and should therefore be included in liv...
- Most MFIs do not pay adequate attention to systematic risk management
- N. Fernando / Asian Development Bank, 2008
- The microfinance industry has grown rapidly during the last decade in breadth, depth, and scope of outreach. The rapid growth seems to continue, given the massive unserved and underserved market. The growth of the industry has changed...
- Microfinance, gender and livelihoods
- L. Mayoux; M. Jiri; M. Cerqueira / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2002
- 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 Action publication describes the Sus...
- Understanding informal credit practices in Afghanistan
- F. Klijn; A. Pain / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2007
- It is widely believed that there is a strong demand for credit in Afghanistan and that much of this demand is unmet, justifying a major programme in microcredit provision. But there is very little understanding of the extent and the w...
- Can investing in microfinance reduce vulnerability to climate change?
- A. Hammill; R. Matthew; E. McCarter / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
- This paper talks about possibilities of using microfinance as a coping strategy or tool for reducing peoples’ vulnerability to climate change. In doing so, the paper identifies possible links between microfinance services and cl...
- Environmental effects of microfinance
- R. Wild; A. Millinga; J. Robinson / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2008
- Although development practitioners increasingly acknowledge the positive impact of microfinance on poverty reduction, less is known about the environmental effects of microfinance schemes. Since 1999, a number of microfinanc...
- Are micro - finance banks in Tanzania pro poor?
- P.J. Dimoso; Z.S. Masanyiwa / Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2008
- This paper examines the effectiveness of micro-finance banks in poverty reduction in Tanzania; using Akiba Commercial Bank, Dar Es Salaam, as a case study. The paper attempts to answer the following key questions: who ...
- Descriptive analysis of the microfinance policies, institutions and tools in a number of countries in central Asian area
- G. Bikbaeva; M. Gaibnazarova / Economic Policy Institutes Networks, 2008
- Microfinance is an emerging important financial sub-sector in Asian transition countries. It plays an important role in improving financial access of poor people and small enterprises players and thus helps them to build assets, there...
- Cash grants enable older people to start and strengthen livelihood activities
- HelpAge International, 2008
- This report provides an account of a livelihood cash grant programme implemented in Banda Aceh in the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami. It shows that older people are still willing and able to work and should therefore be included in liv...
- Most MFIs do not pay adequate attention to systematic risk management
- N. Fernando / Asian Development Bank, 2008
- The microfinance industry has grown rapidly during the last decade in breadth, depth, and scope of outreach. The rapid growth seems to continue, given the massive unserved and underserved market. The growth of the industry has changed...
- Microfinance, gender and livelihoods
- L. Mayoux; M. Jiri; M. Cerqueira / Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2002
- 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 Action publication describes the Sus...
- Understanding informal credit practices in Afghanistan
- F. Klijn; A. Pain / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2007
- It is widely believed that there is a strong demand for credit in Afghanistan and that much of this demand is unmet, justifying a major programme in microcredit provision. But there is very little understanding of the extent and the w...
- Can investing in microfinance reduce vulnerability to climate change?
- A. Hammill; R. Matthew; E. McCarter / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2008
- This paper talks about possibilities of using microfinance as a coping strategy or tool for reducing peoples’ vulnerability to climate change. In doing so, the paper identifies possible links between microfinance services and cl...
- Environmental effects of microfinance
- R. Wild; A. Millinga; J. Robinson / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2008
- Although development practitioners increasingly acknowledge the positive impact of microfinance on poverty reduction, less is known about the environmental effects of microfinance schemes. Since 1999, a number of microfinanc...
- Are micro - finance banks in Tanzania pro poor?
- P.J. Dimoso; Z.S. Masanyiwa / Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2008
- This paper examines the effectiveness of micro-finance banks in poverty reduction in Tanzania; using Akiba Commercial Bank, Dar Es Salaam, as a case study. The paper attempts to answer the following key questions: who ...
- Descriptive analysis of the microfinance policies, institutions and tools in a number of countries in central Asian area
- G. Bikbaeva; M. Gaibnazarova / Economic Policy Institutes Networks, 2008
- Microfinance is an emerging important financial sub-sector in Asian transition countries. It plays an important role in improving financial access of poor people and small enterprises players and thus helps them to build assets, there...
- Profits for the people and the planet: lessons from Bangladesh
- A.K. Ghalib; F. Hossain / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, 2008
- In a deeply unequal and increasingly fragile world, some people are calling for a more socially responsive form of capitalism. Others are already exploring ways of operatationalising such a concept. One such experiment has just taken ...
- How can microcredit better contribute to rural poverty reduction in China?
- C.J. Turvey; R. Kong / United Nations University, 2008
- While China’s growth rates are among the fastest in the world, rural poverty remains high. Not only are households overwhelmingly food insecure, their position relative to urban households has diminished significantly over the p...
- 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
