Commercialisation of microfinance
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- Thinking about the future of microfinance in a shifting global environment
- ( Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest , 2006)
- How can the international community - public and private - contribute to the greatest possible increase in financial service access for underserved people? This focus note from CGAP addresses this que...
- Mapping the possibilities for Islamic microfinance
- ( C. Segrado / Global Development Research Center , 2005)
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Can Islamic finance work in tandem with microfinance in Muslim developing countries, and if so, what would be the implications? These and other questions are addressed in this paper.
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- What products, management systems and contexts contribute microfinance institutions economically sustainable?
- ( D. Roodman; U. Qureshi / Center for Global Development, USA , 2006)
- This paper seeks to identify the factors that have enabled microfinance institutions (MFIs) to successfully operate as businesses, asking how some succeed in covering costs, earning returns, attractin...
- How can mobile phones facilitate banking for the poor?
- ( D. Porteus / Bankable Frontier Associates , 2006)
- This paper is based on the premise that mobile phones can offer a communications channel for initiating and executing on-line financial transactions. This channel may not only reduce the cost of finan...
- Under what conditions does competition result in lower interest rates for microfinance customers?
- ( D. Porteus / Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest , 2006)
- This briefing note asks: "Does competition result in lower interest rates to microcredit customers?" The question is set against the fact that, despite the assumed logic that interest rates on microlo...
- Increasing microfinance outreach and capacity through new technologies
- ( J. Firpo / Foundation for Development Cooperation , 2006)
- This paper asks what role technology can play in increasing the outreach of microfinance services for poor people. It reports on the Remote Transaction System (RTS), a system desgined to link microfin...
- Providing social protection for the poor through micro-insurance
- ( C. Churchill; D. Reinhard; Z. Qureshi / Global Development Research Center , 2006)
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This briefing paper is an output from a conference held in 2005 on microfinance and microinsurance, attended by several international stakeholders, including DFID, the ILO and CGAP.
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- Integrating measurements of the social return on investment into microfinance
- ( D. Thys; D. Tulchin; C. Ohri / Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network , 2005)
- The term "social return on investment" (SROI) generally refers to a method of measuring social benefits. It is expressed as social performance as a ratio to an input, typically capital. SROI is also a...
- Minimising foreign exchange risk for microfinance institutions
- ( T. Bruett / Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network , 2005)
- As the microfinance industry matures and MFIs require increasing amounts of capital from a variety of sources, there has been extensive growth in international lending to MFIs and a similar increase i...
- A critical assessment of the African microfinance industry
- ( A. Basu; R. Blavy; M. Yulek / International Monetary Fund , 2005)
- This paper offers a critical presentation of the development of the microfinance sector in Africa, based on the experience of selected countries. The paper supports the view that microfinance institut...
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