Microfinance Handbook
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Author | : Joanna Ledgerwood |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1998-12-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821384317 |
The purpose of the 'Microfinance Handbook' is to bring together in a single source guiding principles and tools that will promote sustainable microfinance and create viable institutions.
Author | : Beatriz Armendariz |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9814295655 |
Handbook of Microfinance addresses the gap between clients who are benefiting from access to financial services via MFIs, and the potential market, which remains underserved or untapped. This gap can be attributed to a "mismatch" between what consumers, or potential clients, demand and what MFIs offer in terms of financial products. The scope of the book is wide. It includes successes and failures, main challenges and debates, methodologies for impact evaluation via random trials, leading trends in Asia versus Latin America, main efforts in Africa, the importance of value chains in Central America, ethical and gender issues, savings, microinsurance, governance, commercialization trends and the potential advantages and disadvantages of it. Lastly it features main lessons from informal finance and 19th-century credit cooperatives addressing the above-mentioned mismatch.
Author | : Joanna Ledgerwood |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2013-02-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821389270 |
This book methodically outlines all the considerations for increasing financial inclusion, with a particular focus on understanding the needs of poor households.
Author | : Beatriz Armendariz |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 2011-04-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9814465577 |
The Handbook of Microfinance showcases an expansive collection of works from leading academics and field practitioners. In an attempt to understand the enormous gap between the limited number of clients that are currently benefiting from microfinance services, and the huge number of potential clients that are not, the selected contributions in this comprehensive handbook have one common thread: the prevailing mismatch between demand by clients of microfinance institutions and potential clients selecting themselves out for their demand for a wider array of financial products which is not being met.The scope of the book is wide, and explores successes and failures, main challenges and debates, methodologies for impact evaluation via random trials, leading trends in Asia versus Latin America, main efforts in Africa, the importance of value chains in Central America, ethical and gender issues, savings, microinsurance, governance, commercialization trends and the potential advantages and disadvantages of it. This exhaustive Handbook also features main lessons from informal finance and 19th-century credit cooperatives addressing the above-mentioned mismatch.
Author | : Nelly Favis- Villafuerte |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Microfinance |
ISBN | : 9789719327936 |
Author | : Beatriz Armendariz |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2010-04-23 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0262265516 |
An accessible analysis of the global expansion of financial markets in poor communities, incorporating the latest thinking and evidence. The microfinance revolution has allowed more than 150 million poor people around the world to receive small loans without collateral, build up assets, and buy insurance. The idea that providing access to reliable and affordable financial services can have powerful economic and social effects has captured the imagination of policymakers, activists, bankers, and researchers around the world; the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize went to microfinance pioneer Muhammed Yunis and Grameen Bank of Bangladesh. This book offers an accessible and engaging analysis of the global expansion of financial markets in poor communities. It introduces readers to the key ideas driving microfinance, integrating theory with empirical data and addressing a range of issues, including savings and insurance, the role of women, impact measurement, and management incentives. This second edition has been updated throughout to reflect the latest data. A new chapter on commercialization describes the rapid growth in investment in microfinance institutions and the tensions inherent in the efforts to meet both social and financial objectives. The chapters on credit contracts, savings and insurance, and gender have been expanded substantially; a new section in the chapter on impact measurement describes the growing importance of randomized controlled trials; and the chapter on managing microfinance offers a new perspective on governance issues in transforming institutions. Appendixes and problem sets cover technical material.
Author | : David Roodman |
Publisher | : CGD Books |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1933286539 |
The idea that small loans can help poor families build businesses and exit poverty has blossomed into a global movement. The concept has captured the public imagination, drawn in billions of dollars, reached millions of customers, and garnered a Nobel Prize. Radical in its suggestion that the poor are creditworthy and conservative in its insistence on individual accountability, the idea has expanded beyond credit into savings, insurance, and money transfers, earning the name microfinance. But is it the boon so many think it is? Readers of David Roodman's openbook blog will immediately recognize his thorough, straightforward, and trenchant analysis. Due Diligence, written entirely in public with input from readers, probes the truth about microfinance to guide governments, foundations, investors, and private citizens who support financial services for poor people. In particular, it explains the need to deemphasize microcredit in favor of other financial services for the poor.
Author | : Medha Dubhashi |
Publisher | : Allied Publishers |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2022-02-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9390951321 |
It is a long standing notion of the banking sector that the “poor are not credit worthy and hence not bankable” on the other hand, the self-help group bank linkage program is the largest microfinance program in the world. The Grameen bank has illustrated the way to lend to the poor. It has shown that lending to the SHGs is a viable proposition. The book is an easy to read handbook useful for students, academicians and practitioners. It has illustration of innovative cases which adds to the pedagogy of case study in teaching.
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Release | : 1998 |
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Microfinance is not simply banking; it is a development tool. It has been estimated that there are 500 million economically active poor people in the world operating microenterprises and small businesses. Most of them do not have access to adequate financial services. The purpose of this Handbook is to bring together in a single source guiding principles and tools that will promote sustainable microfinance and create viable institutions. The Handbook takes a global perspective, drawing on lessons learned from the experiences of microfinance practitioners, donors, and others throughout the world. This volume covers extensively matters pertaining to the regulatory and policy framework and the essential components of institutional capacity building, such as product design, performance measuring and monitoring, and management of microfinance institutions. The handbook has three parts. "Issues in Microfinance Provision," Part I, takes a macroeconomic perspective toward general microfinance issues and is primarily nontechnical. "Designing and Monitoring Financial Products and Services," Part II, narrows its focus to the provision of financial intermediation, taking a more technical approach and moving progressively toward more specific (or micro) issues. "Measuring Performance and Managing Viability," Part III, is the most technical part of the handbook, focusing primarily on assessing the viability of microfinance institutions.
Author | : Joanna Ledgerwood |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821389289 |
The New Microfinance Handbook provides a detailed overview of client financial service needs, the various providers and financial products and services that meet those needs, and the supporting functions that allow the financial market system to provide better, more appropriate financial services to the poor sustainably.