'How can microfinance have macro impact in the world such that billions of today’s urban and rural poor gain access to financial services? By undertaking 3 pilot studies in Uganda, a consortium of private and public actors sought to determine the role technology could play in increasing the reach of microfinance. This paper discusses the findings of the studies.
Three key lessons that were drawn from the study are discussed in detail by the paper:
1. Technology combined with business proce more...
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Market failures in rural finance and related issues of adverse selection, moral hazard, and transaction costs justify targeted interventions to ensure that services reach the poor and the un-banked sustainably. Service providers aiming at sustainability cannot rely on donor money and instead they have to generate their own operational income from provision of efficient services and setting the price for their services appropriately. However, while there is a general consensus on the 'components' more...
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''Global Savings, Assets and Financial Inclusion: Lessons, Challenges and Directions''. Report from a Global Symposium, June 2007, Singapore (www.globalassetproject.org)
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The First MicrofinanceBank Ltd (FMFB) is the result of the transformation of the microfinance program of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP), with more than twenty years of experience, into a separate, specialised microfinance bank. In 1996, the AKRSP started to streamline its microfinance program separately, with the objective of creating a separate entity, capable of mobilising savings. FMBL has benefited from the long experience and transfer of key employees and technologies from AKRSP more...
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The NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet (“Another Way”) of the Netherlands promotes a Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable, local integrated development projects for the world’s poor. This work is in the public domain. It can be accessed, downloaded from website www.flowman.nl and used free of charge. The website has been further enriched by a series of four Powerpoint® Presentations in English and French which can be directly accessed from the homepage.The first presentation www.flo more...
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The Alliance responds to the need and demand for an inclusive global forum and platform for cross-sectoral policy dialogue on the use of ICT for enhancing the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, notably reduction of poverty.
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The Africa-Brazil Cooperation Programme on Social Development promotes technical exchanges between Brazil and African countries. Currently, twenty-six delegates from Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, the African Union, NEPAD and AfDB are participating in a Study Tour in Brazil.
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