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  Women’s empowerment through sustainable micro-finance: rethinking "best practice"

  Sustainable Micro-finance for Women's Empowerment, 2006

  This paper challenges assumptions about the automatic benefits of micro-finance for women. It argues that financial indicators of access – such as women’s programme membership and size of loans – cannot be used as indicators of women’s empowerment. High repayment levels by women do not necessarily indicate that women have used the loans themselves.
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  Health micro-insurance schemes: feasibility study guide

  International Labour Organization, 2006

  This Guide will assist promoters of health micro-insurance schemes in conducting a feasibility study.
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  Banking the unbanked: technology's role in delivering accessible financial services to the poor

  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 microfinance clients to their financial institutions and beyond.
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  Making insurance work for the poor

  Global Development Research Center, 2006

  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.For the purpose of the conference, microinsurance was defined as: "the protection of low income people against specific perils in exchange for regular premium payments proportionate to the likelihood and cost of the
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  Social return on investment and its relevance to microfinance

  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.
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  Five strategies to minimize foreign exchange risk for microfinance institutions

  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 in foreign exchange risk for MFIs.As microfinance managers seek to finance their future business plans, this Progress Note offers five suggestions on how to best minimise or manage risk.
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  Domestic money transfer services for migrant workers in China

  Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2005

  This document is the executive summary of a study which aims to understand the demand for and supply of the remittance services for migrant workers in China in order to recommend ways to improve the remittance services, with the ultimate goal of contributing to the improvement of the income and welfare of migrant workers and their families and to promote the overall income growth and equity in Chi
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  Working with savings and credit co-operatives

  Microfinance Gateway, CGAP, 2005

  Savings and credit cooperatives provide financial services to millions, including poor and low-income people in many countries. They are user-owned financial intermediaries that have the advantage of being able to reach people in very remote areas without access to banks, and providing savings services to the members.
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  Microfinance: sustainable tool for urban poverty alleviation policy recommendations, research agenda, and investigation into national and donor stakeholder activity in the sector

  Social Enterprise Associates, 2005

  Microfinance has gained increasing credibility and and raised its profile in recent years as an effective poverty alleviation instrument. This has led to a proliferation of microfinance institutions, particularly in Latin America, and to government agency support. For example, the U.S. government government passed a law in 2001 establishing microenterprise development as an integral part of U.S.
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  Microfinance in Africa: experience and lessons from selected African countries

  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 institutions effectively complement the banking sector in extending financial services, and successfully draw on the rich experience of community-based development.

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