
Practical Microfinance
A training manual
Published: 2003
Pages: 192
eBook: 9781780440903
Paperback: 9781853395635
Prelims (Contents, Acknowledgements, Introduction) | |||
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1. ‘New paradigm microfinance’ – what is it? | |||
2. Introduction to financial accounts and analysis | |||
3. Field visits to microbusinesses | |||
4. Rates of return and the cost of money | |||
5. Visit to microfinance groups | |||
6. Financial analysis of a microfinance institution | |||
7. Planning for MFI profitability | |||
8. Marketing microfinance | |||
9. Men and women as clients for microfinance | |||
10. Arrears and defaults – definition and measurement | |||
11. ‘Graduation’ and individual loans | |||
12. Individual versus group lending – the pros and cons of each | |||
13. Bangladesh Grameen groups or self-help on-lending groups? | |||
14. Subsidies – when and how? | |||
15. Commercial banks and microfinance | |||
16. The need for microsavings services | |||
17. Micro-insurance | |||
18. MFI staffing – recruitment and motivation | |||
19. Management information systems – selection and design | |||
20. Measuring the impact of microfinance | |||
21. The ‘downside’ of microfinance | |||
22. Regulation and supervision – by whom and how? | |||
Back Matter (Resources, Index) |
Malcolm Harper
Malcolm Harper taught at Cranfield School of Management until 1995, and since then has worked mainly in India. He has published on enterprise development and microfinance. He was Chairman of Basix Finance from 1996 until 2006, and is Chairman of M-CRIL, the microfinance credit rating agency.
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