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Microfinance and microcredit
The term microfinance encompasses the delivery of a range of financial services to poor families and entrepreneurs, which includes small loans in the form of microcredit.
This section focuses on the delivery of microfinance and microcredit services to help recipients engage in productive, income generating activities. It includes resources addressing lending mechanisms, setting appropriate interest rates, identifying and utilitising appropriate MIS and ICT systems, best practice approaches and toolkits. It also provides links to microfinance institutions and outlines available training resources for microfinance practitioners.
Concepts and Approaches
- Exclusion of disabled people from microcredit in Africa and Asia: a literature study
- The challenges in microfinance in areas of low population density
- Microfinance in Australia: current realities and future possibilities
- Microfranchising : the next step
- Reimagining microfinance
- Principles of sustainable microfinance
- VANWODS Microfinance Impact Assessment
- Leveraging remittances with microfinance
- CGAP Portfolio Newsletter
- Towards Islamic microfinance: a primer
- The business of global poverty
- Energy lending: microfinance & access to modern, alternative energies
- Microfinance: financial services for the poor
- Microfinance: a platform for social change
- Surviving disasters and supporting recovery: a guidebook
- Beyond good intentions: measuring the social performance of microfinance institutions
- From microfinance to macro change: Integrating health education and microfinance
- Microfinance: a sustainable tool for urban poverty alleviation
- Microfinance donor projects: 12 questions about sound practice
- Key principles of microfinance
- Microfinance consensus guidelines
- Financial services for the rural poor
- The Microfinance Gateway
Lending Mechanisms
- Kiva: person-to-person micro-lending
- What is online microlending?
- Breaking down the walls between microfinance and the formal financial system
- Working with formal financial institutions
- Commercial banks and microfinance
- How donors can help build pro-poor financial systems
- The market for foreign investment in microfinance
Interest Rates
Outreach (Rural vs. Urban)
- Financial Services Models in Papua New Guinea: Increasing Access to Finance in Rural Areas
- Access to financial services in Nepal
- Rural microfinance service delivery: gaps, inefficiencies and emerging solutions
- Designing microfinance to serve the MDGs
- Maximising the outreach of microenterprise finance
- Expanding commercial microfinance in rural areas
- Rural finance learning centre
- The Seeds of Development
- Rural Finance Group
Products and Services
Microinsurance
Management Information Systems and ICTs
- Using ICT in capacity building for poverty reduction in Asia: training of trainers course
- Information and communication technology and microfinance: options for Mongolia
- Increasing the Outreach and Sustainability of Microfinance through ICT Innovation
- Funding microfinance technology
- Increasing access to microfinance using information and communications technologies
Microfinance Institutions and Supporting Organisations
- Asia Microfinance Analysis and Benchmarking Report 2008
- Microfinance Pasifika
- Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network
- The Microfinance Information Exchange
- The Banking With The Poor Network
- Imp-Act
- A guide to the Microfinance Gateway
- Appraisal guide for microfinance institutions: a technical guide
- The Role of NGOs in Microfinance
- Microfinance partnerships: opportunities and challenges
- Opportunity International Australia
- World Education Australia
- Microfinance Services
- Australian Business Volunteers
- Grameen Bank
Best Practices and Case Studies
- Microfinance and poverty reduction in Asia: What is the evidence?
- Microfinance and poverty: the Japanese experiences
- MicroSave briefing notes
- Country studies on leveraging remittances with microfinance
- Microfinance, poor rural households and women
- The ethnic minority market of Si Ma Cai, Vietnam
- The Long Term Benefits of MED in a Developed Country
- Developing microfinance in Fiji: challenges and successes
- Microfinance against child labour
- Linking debt relief to microfinance: an issues paper
- Australian aid: Approaches to microfinance and enterprise development
- Eight years of lending in Upper Egypt
- Asia resource centre for microfinance - country profiles
- Banking on Grameen: is it viable in the Philippines?
- The performance and sustainability of two Philippine microfinance institutions
- Governance of microfinance institutions