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Articles by: Schrieder, G. (6 items)

Reaching the Poor Through Financial Innovations (1995)
Towards more understanding of the meaning and role of financial innovation
Rural Finance for Food Security for the Poor: Implications for Research and Policy (1997)
Can financial services for the poor help them overcome fundamental food and income insecurities?
Impact of Finance on Poverty Reduction and Social Capital Formation: A Review and Synthesis of Empirical Evidence (1999)
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Does the poor's access to and participation in microfinance lead to positive welfare changes?
Promoting Private Sector Based Financial System Development: Country Study - Uganda (1997)
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What is the economic situation in Uganda and the role for microfinance in this context?
Rural Financial Market Development (1999)
What is the importance of institutional framework in a financial system?

Articles by: Sharma, M. (28 items)

The MicroSave-India Market-led Financial Services Programme (MicroSave India Focus Note 1) (2008)
An overview of MicroSave India’s program for Indian financial institutions.
Electronic Banking: The Next Revolution in Financial Access? (MicroSave India Focus Note 4) (2008)
Reasons for failures in e-banking initiatives in India and solutions for success
MicroSave Briefing Note #53 - Loan Portfolio Audit in Practice (2007)
A tool for revealing important issues in the management, control and policies of MFIs loan portfolios.
Factors Affecting Repayment Rates in Group-Based Lending: Findings From Bangladesh and Madagascar (2000)
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Community-Driven Development and Scaling Up of Microfinance Services: Case Studies from Nepal and India (2000)
How important is an external enabling environment for the success of microfinance?
The Scope for Policy Reforms in Rural Microfinance (2000)
In what specific areas can reforms in policy further the cause of rural microfinance?
The Demand for Financial Services by the Rural Poor (2000)
Is institutional innovation the answer to meeting the poor’s demand for financial services?
Impact of Microfinance on Poverty Alleviation: What Does Emerging Evidence Indicate? (2000)
How will an improvement in impact studies improve the benefits of microfinance?
Informal Markets: What Lessons Can We Learn From Them? (2000)
Lessons from the informal market
Rural Financial Services for Poverty Alleviation: The Role of Public Policy (2000)
Can the aid of public policy for institutional innovations develop rural markets?
Consideration in the Placement and Outreach of Microfinance Organizations: The Case of ASA, BRAC, and PROSHIKA in Bangladesh (2000)
What policy changes can interest non-government organizations in opening branches in remote areas?
Assessing the Relative Poverty Level in Clients of Microfinance Institutions: An Operational Tool (2000)
Looking at the effectiveness of a poverty assessment tool
Community-Driven Development and Scaling-Up of Microfinance Services: Case Studies from Nepal and India (2004)
How can community-driven development programs be successful?
Micro-Lending for Small Farmers in Bangladesh: Does it Affect Farm Households' Land Allocation Decision? (2002)
Farmers in Bangladesh lack access to formal financial institutions and micro lending institutions
microFinance: A Pathway From Poverty (2000)
Is microfinance a panacea for poverty?
Connecting the Rural Poor (2001)
Can poverty be addressed through Information and Communications Technology (ICT)?
Rural Financial Policies for Food Security of the Poor: Methodologies for a Multi-country Research Project (1996)
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Identifying policies and institutional arrangements to facilitate access to savings and credit systems for the poor.
Assessing the Relative Poverty Level of MFI Clients: Synthesis Report Based on Four Case Studies (2000)
What are the prerequisites to a comprehensive assessment of an MFI?
Repayment Performance in Group-based Credit Programs in Bangladesh: An Empirical Analysis (1997)
How can repayment rates be improved among poor and remote communities?
Impact of Finance on Poverty Reduction and Social Capital Formation: A Review and Synthesis of Empirical Evidence (1999)
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Does the poor's access to and participation in microfinance lead to positive welfare changes?
An Operational Tool for Evaluating Poverty Outreach of Development Policies and Projects (2001)
Does this new tool really offer an objective and effective method for poverty evaluation?
Placement and Outreach of Group-Based Credit Organizations: The Cases of ASA, BRAC, and Proshika in Bangladesh (1999)
Do NGOs target their services in underdeveloped regions or do they locate in better endowed areas?
Many Borrow, More Save, and All Insure, Implications for Food and Microfinance Policy (2000)
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Where are the gaps in the range of financial products
Non-Formal Insurance and Microfinance (2000)
Micro Finance Institutions can play an important role in providing safety-nets to the vulnerable and enable them to manage risks
Strengthening Public Safety Nets from the Bottom Up (2002)
Should policies on public safety nets build from the bottom up?
Group-based Financial Institutions for the Rural Poor in Bangladesh: An Institutional- and Household-Level Analysis (2001)
Do NGOs target their services in underdeveloped regions or do they locate in better endowed areas?
Rural Finance and Poverty Alleviation (1998)
Does the formal sector have lessons to learn from the informal sector?
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