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Microfinance Handbook: An Institutional and Financial Perspective
31 Dec 1998, Ledgerwood, J.
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A technical manual aimed at assisting microfinance practicioners in the design and implementation of their activities.
This technical manual is a culmination of the ‘Sustainable Banking with the Poor’ project.
The manual aims to:
- Assist microfinance practitioners, donors and policy makers in the design and implementation of their activities,
- Gather and present up-to-date knowledge that experts in microfinance have directly or indirectly contributed,
- Bring together, in a single source, guiding principles and tools that will promote sustainable microfinance and create viable institutions,
- Provide a comprehensive source for the design, implementation, evaluation and management of microfinance activities.
It covers:
- The policy, legal and regulatory issues relevant to microfinance development,
- The key elements in the process of building financial institutions with effective outreach to the poor,
- The institutional and financial aspects of microfinance,
- An update of lessons learned and best practices in the field.
The manual consists of three parts:
- Issues in microfinance provision addresses broad considerations of microfinance activities, including identifying target markets, conducting impact analysis, choosing products and services and possible institutional issues.
- Designing and monitoring financial products and services addresses more specific issues in the design of lending/savings products and the development of management information systems.
- Measuring performance and managing viability provides tools for evaluating the financial health of a microfinance institution (MFI) and managing operational issues concerning financial statements.
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| This book will be a great help for us to improve our present projects. We are a US based 501(c)3 organization presently working on microfinance projects in Bangladesh, We are helping a special group of Urdu speaking people living in the camps since 1971. Our goal is to bring these people into main stream by providing the education and self empowerment through microfinancing. Anwar Khan President www.OBATHelpers.org | |||
| Anwar Khan OBAT Helpers Inc United States |
| 11 Feb 2010 | |||
| Microfinance Handbook: An Institutional and Financial Handbook. | |||
| I have actually gone through the book and I must admit this is the bible for all microfinance practitioners and students. Anthony Mang'eni, Kenya. | |||
| Kenya |
| 07 Feb 2010 | |||
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| Great Resource material. This is an invaluable companion. | |||
| Dr Steve OGIDAN Successory Nigeria Ltd Nigeria |
| 26 Jan 2010 | |||
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| Pakistan |
| 03 Dec 2009 | |||
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| I am a Grants Officer so I want this book very much. | |||
| Raphael Nkane FAIR Malawi Malawi |
| 27 Nov 2009 | |||
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| Sri Lanka |
| 17 Oct 2009 | |||
| Some gap in the handbook on Micro finance | |||
| The hand book on Micro finance is useful to the practitioners. The book delves in detail on micro savings and micro credit products but the other important component of micro finance namely Micro insurance in the context of poverty reduction, has not been justifiably dealt with. The values of micro insurance which are more beneficial to both the poor clients and the institutions have not been recognized adequately making a gap in the hand book on Micro finance. In the case of micro credit , the technicalities for designing micro credit product are well covered but it pertains to mostly for the poor micro entrepreneurs who are with some wherewithal for income generation(assured cash flow pattern) representing the upper layer in poverty segment. There is not much guidelines for inclusion of non entrepreneurs category ( the poorest) among the poor for micro financing?. | |||
| Varadarajan Rengarajan Independent Consultant-Microfinance India |
| 14 Oct 2009 | |||
| Microfinance Hand Book | |||
| An elaborate tool. Every loan officer should be thoroughly familiar witht his book | |||
| Ghana |
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| upneet grover infy India |
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| Nigeria |
| 08 Jul 2009 | |||
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| i want this book. It is more helpful to organise the micro finance course in india | |||
| Sourapalli Bheemarao VIEWS India |
| 17 Jun 2009 | |||
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| Jonathan Landesman United States |
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