Download or read book Microfinance Risk Management and Poverty written by Jennefer Sebstad and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Microfinance Risk Management and Poverty written by Monique Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Microfinance and Poverty Reduction written by Susan Johnson and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 1997 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book emphasizes the importance of studying the local context, and then considering the macroeconomic factors which may be operating upon the economy of a particular country. Five extended case studies, in the Gambia, Ecuador, Mexico, Pakistan, and the UK are examined with reference to further aspects of sustainability and impact assessment.
Download or read book Financializing Poverty written by Sohini Kar and published by South Asia in Motion. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : enfolding the poor -- Entrepreneurship and work at the "bottom of the pyramid"--Social banking to financial inclusion -- The reluctant moneylender -- The domestication of microfinance -- Financial risk and the moral economy of credit -- Insured death, precarious life
Download or read book Impact of Credit Risk Management Practices on Micro Financing the Poor for Poverty Alleviation in Africa written by Victor Yawo Atiase and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Africa has experienced encouraging economic growth over the past decade, the livelihood and living conditions of most on the continent does not reflect this trend. Ghana is no exception. Even though Ghana has made modest gains in economic growth and productivity, livelihoods, unemployment, diseases and above all the number one enemy poverty among the Ghanaian population continue to soar above acceptable limits. In most developing countries like Ghana, microfinancing the poor for them to engage in entrepreneurial activity has been used to fight this number one enemy, poverty. To protect their investment, microfinance institutions (MFIs) apply credit risk management. Although credit risk management is essential to safeguarding the credit portfolio, deposits and improve loan recovery, it is essential that MFIs adopt pro-poor credit risk management practices in order to provide access to entrepreneurial finance to these ‘bottom of the ladder’ who are often marginalised from access to finance from mainstream banks. The problem is that, when credit risk management practices are too stringent, it creates the potential of denying the poor access to entrepreneurial finance, with consequences for poverty reduction. In fact, some commentators strongly suggest that financing the poor to engage in entrepreneurial activity is hampered by less than pro-poor credit risk management practices of lending institutions. This assertion has yet to be tested on MFIs in the developing country context including Ghana where microcredit has become a flourishing business. A knowledge gap therefore exists insofar as the impact of credit risk management practices on poverty alleviation through microfinancing the poor to engage in entrepreneurship is concerned. To bridge this gap, this study investigated the microfinance credit risk management practices of MFIs operating in the Greater-Accra Region of Ghana to assess the extent to which such practices hinder the poor from accessing entrepreneurial finance and impact thereof on poverty alleviation/ reduction. In the study, the Greater Accra Region is used as a test case for Ghana by involving respondents from purposefully selected 141 MFIs in the region comprising of 378 officers of MFIs and 1,235 MFI loan beneficiaries. The results reveal that stringent credit risk management practices exist among MFIs. It was also found that most of the poor who are willing to engage in entrepreneurship are unable to obtain finance due to credit risk management practices that they perceive as are too stringent. Furthermore, it was found that MFIs that adopt pro-poor credit risk management practices attract more poor clients, and such clients become successful in their businesses. Based on the above and other findings, recommendations are made which if carefully implemented can make microcredit risk management pro-poor, while minimising credit risk for MFIs. Recommendations are also made for further research.
Download or read book Making Microfinance Work written by Craig Churchill and published by International Labour Organisation. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microfinance has long been recognized as having significant potential to create jobs and reduce poverty. But to meet the twin challenges of growth and sustainability, managers of microfinance institutions (MFIs) must not only understand essential management functions: they must also be armed with innovative ideas and strategies to succeed in today's increasingly competitive environment. This book provides a valuable overview of the key management principles necessary to optimize the services of MFIs.Volume 1 examines the markets and marketing of MFIs and captures the different ways that managers can communicate the value of their products and services. It offers strategies to prevent risk from occurring and, if it does occur, explains how to rectify the situation. Practical techniques for allocating costs and determining prices are also highlighted, as well as the importance of plans, budgets and reports. Volume 2 includes chapters on various product options, including savings, insurance, leasing, money transfers, and even grants and nonfinancial services. It also explores how to combine different product menus to serve specific market segments, such as the ultra-poor, youth, women, and small and medium enterprises. It provides specific suggestions to manage diversification, including adapting the institutional culture, redistributing responsibilities, empowering staff, communicating with clients, reengineering systems, and managing change.
Download or read book Transforming Microfinance Institutions written by Joanna Ledgerwood and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a clear need by low-income people to gain access to the full range of financial services including savings, a growing number of microfinance NGOs are seeking guidelines to transform from credit-focused microfinance organizations to regulated deposit-taking financial intermediaries. In response to this trend, this book presents a practical 'how-to' manual for MFIs to develop the capacity to become licensed and regulated to mobilize deposits from the public. 'Transforming Microfinance Institutions' provides guidelines for regulators to license and regulate microfinance providers, and for transforming MFIs to meet the demands of two major new stakeholders regulators and shareholders. As such, it focuses on developing the capacity of NGO MFIs to mobilize and intermediate voluntary savings. Drawing from worldwide experience, it outlines how to manage the transformation process and address major strategic and operational issues inherent in transformation including competitive positioning, business planning, accessing capital and shareholders, and how to 'transform' the MFI's human resources, financial management, MIS, internal controls, and branch operations. Case studies then provide examples of developing a new regulatory tier for microfinance, and how a Ugandan NGO transformed to become a licensed financial intermediary. This book will be invaluable to regulators and microfinance NGOs contemplating institutional transformation and will be of tremendous use to donors and technical support agencies supporting MFIs in their transformation.
Download or read book Microfinance Handbook written by Joanna Ledgerwood and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Financializing Poverty written by Sohini Kar and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microfinance is the business of giving small, collateral-free loans to poor borrowers that are paid back in frequent intervals with interest. While these for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) promise social and economic empowerment, they have mainly succeeded at enfolding the poor—especially women—into the vast circuits of global finance. Financializing Poverty ethnographically examines how the emergence of MFIs has allowed financial institutions in the city of Kolkata, India, to capitalize on the poverty of its residents. This book reveals how MFIs have restructured debt relationships in new ways. On the one hand, they have opened access to new streams of credit. However, as the network of finance increasingly incorporates the poor, the "inclusive" dimensions of microfinance are continuously met with rigid forms of credit risk management that reproduce the very inequality the loans are meant to alleviate. Moreover, despite being collateral-free loans, the use of life insurance to manage the high mortality rates of poor borrowers has led to the collateralization of life itself. Thus the newfound ability of the poor to use MFI loans has entrapped them in a system dependent not only on their circulation of capital, but on the poverty that threatens their lives.
Download or read book The Synergy of Microfinance written by Binod B. Nayak and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Synergy of Microfinance underlines the significance of innovative financial and risk management tools and non-financial complementary services by microfinance institutions in poverty alleviation. It undertakes a nuanced analysis of financial instruments— microcredit, microsavings, microinsurance, microleasing and payment systems for money transfer— and non-financial services such as social intermediation, livelihood promotion and access to broader market place. Given the diminished expectations on microcredit impact, the book highlights results from randomized control trial (RCT)-based studies around the world. It argues that exclusive access to microcredit alone may not suffice in alleviating poverty on a mass scale and could pose a financial risk for poor households or households that over-borrow. There is also a discussion on the Andhra Pradesh microfinance crisis of 2010, and the developments that took place in its aftermath.
Download or read book Microfinance Risk taking Behaviour and Rural Livelihood written by Amit K. Bhandari and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth analysis of borrowing and risk taking behavior of rural people, with the aim of designing effective financial products and service delivery in the rural market. Includes analysis of government schemes to promote rural development.
Download or read book Microfinance written by Joe Remenyi and published by Un-Habitat. This book was released on 2011 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affirms that the links between microfinance and the Millennium Development Goals must be emphasised because both spheres overlap in the crucial domain of worldwide poverty reduction. Explores how microfinance could boost current efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Argues that substantial synergies are yet to be realized between microfinance and Goals, based on careful, well- targeted approaches that are not only pro-poor, but also focus on the unique situation of the chronic poor.
Download or read book Influence of Credit Risk on the Growth of Microfinance Organizations in Eldoret Municipality Kenya written by Irene Cheptumo and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2018 in the subject Economics - Finance, Moi University (Moi University, Kenya; Department of Accounting and Finance), language: English, abstract: The Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) lend small amounts of unsecured loans to poor clients which signify their objectives of improving the social status of the poor while also trying to maximize their returns. Yet, lending by MFIs is a risky venture especially in developing countries because of the susceptibility of their poor clients. This study therefore determined the extent at which strategic credit risk management affect growth of MFIs in the Eldoret Municipality, Kenya. This study used probability clustered random sampling of 12 MFIs in Eldoret municipality to collect primary data and various reports and published work on MFIs between 2010 to 2015 formed the basis of secondary data. The effect of loan default, risk coverage and credit policy on growth of MFIs was measured by profit and outreach respectively. The relationship between of loan default, risk coverage and credit policy and growth was measured using multiple linear regression models. Hausmann test of endogeneity was employed to validate the results. We demonstrate that profit was significantly (p
Download or read book Making Microfinance Work written by Craig Farren Churchill and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2006 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This training manual provides an overview of the key management principles necessary to optimize the services of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and brings together useful lessons from numerous MFIs worldwide to help managers strengthen the performance of their unit, branch or institution.Either used alone, or as part of a management training course, Making Microfinance Work offers various tools and advice. The markets and marketing of MFIs are examined and looks at the different ways in which managers can communicate the value of their products and services. It introduces effective methods for enhancing efficiency and productivity which minimize the trade-offs MFIs invariably face as they try to provide services over the long term.The topic of managing risks is also covered. This manual offers strategies to prevent risk from occurring and, if it does occur, explains how to rectify the situation. Practical techniques for allocating costs and determining prices are also highlighted, as well as the importance of plans, budgets and reports. Illustrations and case studies are used to assist managers in applying the concepts outlined in the text. An extensive list of additional reading and useful Internet resources is also provided
Download or read book Small Money Big Impact written by Peter A. Fanconi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make your money make a difference—and enjoy attractive returns Small Money, Big Impact explores and explains the globally growing importance of impact investing. Today, the investor's perspective has become as important as the actual social impact. Based on their experience with over 25 million micro borrowers, the authors delve into the mechanics, considerations, data and strategies that make microloans and impact investing an attractive asset class. From the World Bank to the individual investor, impact investing is attracting more and more attention. Impact investing is a global megatrend and is reshaping the way people invest as pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, family offices and private investors jump on board. This book explains for the first time how it works, why it works and what you should know if you're ready to help change the world. Impact investing has proven over the last 20 years as the first-line offense against crushing poverty. Over two billion people still lack access to basic financial services, which are essential for improving their livelihood. Investors have experienced not only social and environmental impact, but have received attractive, stable and uncorrelated returns for over 15 years. This guide provides the latest insights and methodologies that help you reap the rewards of investing in humanity. Explore the global impact investing phenomenon Learn how microloans work, and how they make a difference Discover why investors are increasingly leaning into impact investing Consider the factors that inform impact investing decisions Part social movement and part financial strategy, impact investing offers the unique opportunity for investors to power tremendous change with a small amount of money— expanding their portfolios as they expand their own global impact. Microfinance allows investors at any level to step in where banks refuse to tread, offering opportunity to those who need it most. Small Money, Big Impact provides the expert guidance you need to optimize the impact on your portfolio and the world.
Download or read book The Future of Microfinance written by Ira W. Lieberman and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major source of financing for the poor and no longer a niche industry Over the past four decades, microfinance—the provision of loans, savings, and insurance to small businesses and entrepreneurs shut out of traditional capital markets—has grown from a niche service in Bangladesh and a few other countries to a significant global source of financing. Some 200 million people globally now receive support from microfinance institutions, with most of the recipients in the developing world. In the beginning, much of the microfinance industry was managed by non-governmental organizations, but today the majority of these institutions are commercial and regulated by governments, and they provide safe places for the poor to save, as well as offering much-needed capital and other financial services. Now out of infancy, the microfinance industry faces major challenges, including its ability to deal with mobile banking and other technology and concerns that some markets are now over-saturated with microfinance. How the industry deals with these and other challenges will determine whether it will continue to grow or will be subsumed within the larger global financial sector. This book is based on the results of a workshop at Lehigh University among thirty-four leaders in the industry. The editors, working with contributions from more than a dozen leading authorities in the field, tell the important story of how microfinance developed, how it has met the needs of hundreds of millions of people, and they address key questions about how it can continue to meet those needs in the future.
Download or read book The Triangle of Microfinance written by Manfred Zeller and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s when the microfinance revolution began, much has been accomplished, but the field became more refined in the 1990s as a result of shifts in paradigms, strategies, and development practices. This volume addresses the three policy objectives that now occupy those who wish to use credit as a development tool: financial sustainability of microfinance institutions, outreach to the poor, and welfare impact. Inevitable tradeoffs exist among these objectives, and the book advances an analytical framework that assists students of and experts in microfinance to identify the tradeoffs and synergies at the institutional level and in the policy environment. The book features a wealth of empirical data and innovative analytical studies, and critically discusses the role of public support for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in light of the social costs and benefits generated by such financial systems. The book is organized into five parts. The first discusses the demand for and access to financial services by the poor, emphasizing that demand-oriented, pro-poor financial services are crucial in reaching the poor. The second is concerned with two of the criteria used to evaluate MFIsoutreach and financial sustainability. The third features innovative econometric studies seeking to evaluate the impact of MFIs at the household level. The fourth looks at the role of both public- and private-sector institutions in developing sustainable financial systems. And the fifth summarizes implications for policy and research. Given the lack of sound, empirical literature on microfinance, this volume is sure to advance knowledge and research methodology in the field.
