New Partnerships for Innovation in Microfinance

The blossoming of microfinance to embrace a wider constituency of providers and investors, and a broader range of instruments that can reach more clients has been a very positive confirmation of the United Nation’s designation of 2005 as the year of microcredit, or more inclusively, microfinance. EL...

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Other Authors: Matthäus-Maier, Ingrid (Editor), Pischke, J. D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Partnerships to Leverage Private Investment
  • New Partnerships for Sustainability and Outreach
  • Raising MFI Equity Through Microfinance Investment Funds
  • Market Transparency: The Role of Specialised MFI Rating Agencies
  • MFI Equity: An Investment Opportunity for the Broader Public?
  • Microfinance and Economic Growth – Reflections on Indian Experience
  • Microfinance Investments and IFRS: The Fair Value Challenge
  • Partnerships to Leverage Private Investment
  • Technology Partnerships to Scale up Outreach
  • Remittance Money Transfers, Microfinance and Financial Integration: Of Credo, Cruxes, and Convictions
  • Remittances and MFIs: Issues and Lessons from Latin America
  • Using Technology to Build Inclusive Financial Systems
  • Information Technology Innovations That Extend Rural Microfinance
  • Banking the Unbanked: Issues in Designing Technology to Deliver Financial Services to the Poor
  • Can Credit Scoring Help Attract Profit-Minded Investors to Microcredit?
  • Credit Scoring: Why Scepticism Is Justified
  • Partnerships to Mobilise Savings and Manage Risk
  • Micropensions: Old Age Security for the Poor?
  • Cash, Children or Kind? Developing Old Age Security for Low-Income People in Africa
  • Microinsurance: Providing Profitable Risk Management Possibilities for the Low-Income Market
  • Securitisation: A Funding Alternative for Microfinance Institutions
  • Reducing Barriers to Microfinance Investments: The Role of Structured Finance