[Tech-forum_FIDAFRIQUE] New Publications on The Microfinance Gateway

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Title: List of 2007 documents for Dec Publications Bulletin

New in the Microfinance Gateway Library: Publications You Can Use!

 

The Microfinance Gateway Highlights Savings

Why are savings important? How do MFIs manage them? The Microfinance Gateway explores these critical questions for MFIs in the latest Highlight series.

Three feature articles look at the overall business case for offering savings to poor people, children's savings products in Sri Lanka, and efforts to enhance both supply and demand for savings in Uganda.

Each month, the Microfinance Gateway adds valuable material received from industry participants to our online library of over 6,900 documents. In December 2007, 50 new documents were added to the Microfinance Gateway repository. Each of these publications can be downloaded at no cost from http://www.microfinancegateway.org/.

We list below the latest literature produced on microfinance for your reference. Topics covered this month include: Donor Role, Financial Performance Measurement, Investments in Microfinance, Links with Other Development Fields, Microinsurance, Remittances, Savings and Credit, Sector Overview & Development and Other New literature.

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Donor Role

 

1.      Good Practice Guidelines E-book, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).
Handbook for microfinance funding agency staff to help them support and interact with various microfinance stakeholders.

 

2.      Netherlands Peer Review Check-up, Latortue, A., Glisovic-Mezieres, J. & Tsilikounas, C., Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).
A microfinance donor peer review check-up conducted by CGAP.

 

Financial Performance Measurement

 

1.      2007 MIX Global 100: Rankings of Microfinance Institutions, Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX).

This report includes composite rankings of the top 100 MFIs based on their performance on selected criterion.

 

2.      Benchmarking African Microfinance 2006, Lafourcade, A., Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX).

This report highlights features of microfinance in the African region.

 

3.      Benchmarking Latin American Microfinance 2006, Gehrke, M. & Martínez, R., Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX).

This report examines the performance of Latin American MFIs and explores trends in the microfinance sector.

 

4.      India Microfinance Review 2007, Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) & Micro-Credit Ratings International Limited (M-CRIL).

This report presents an overview of the performance of Indian MFIs, based on a detailed analysis of their ratings.

 

Investments in Microfinance

 

1.      Growing Investment in Microfinance, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).
This CGAP publication offers insight into the latest microfinance investment trends.

 

2.      Microfinance: An Emerging Investment Opportunity, Dieckmann, R., Deutsche Bank.
How can private investors help to scale up microfinance and narrow the funding gap?

 

3.      Survey of Microfinance Investment Vehicles, von Stauffenberg, D., MicroRate.
What factors are driving the growth of microfinance funds?

 

Links with Other Development Fields

 

1.      Credit and Microfinance Needs in Inland Capture Fisheries Development and Conservation in Asia, Tietze, U., Siar, S., Marmulla, G. & van Anrooy, R., Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
This publication presents basic considerations and general principles for organizations that provide credit and microfinance services to the fisheries sector.

 

2.      Financial Services for Russian Small Business - Market Situation and Perspectives, Shironin, V., Russian Microfinance Centre.
This paper examines the demand and supply of financial services for the Russian SME sector.

 

3.      How Microfinance Can Work For the Poor: The Case for Integrating Microfinance with Education and Health Services, Dunford, C., Leatherman, S., Sinclair, M., Metcalfe, M., Gray, B. & Vor der Bruegge, E., Freedom from Hunger.
How can a scalable strategy for delivering integrated microfinance services that meet the various needs of poor people be developed?

 

4.      Microfinance and Health Protection "MAHP" NEWS, Freedom from Hunger.
November 2007 issue of Microfinance and Health Protection initiative's newsletter.

 

5.      Microfinance and Health Protection Initiative, Freedom from Hunger.
Overview of Freedom from Hunger's initiative that integrates health protection and credit services.

 

Microinsurance

 

1.      Insurance, Credit and Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Malawi, Giné, X. & Yang, D., World Bank.
This paper studies the impact of an innovative insurance plus credit product on technology adoption.

 

2.      Microinsurance Aspects in Agriculture, Levin, T. & Reinhard, D., Munich Re Foundation and CGAP Working on Microinsurance.
This paper examines the potential of agricultural index-based insurance schemes for low- income households.

 

3.      Prosper (Issue No. 2), International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF).
This newsletter provides the latest news on global developments in microinsurance.

 

Remittances

 

1.      Migrant Remittances - Unlocking Hidden Potential, World Savings Banks Institute (WSBI) & European Savings Banks Group (ESBG).
This document lays out a policy framework to optimize the effectiveness of migrant remittances.

 

2.      Remittances, Competition and Fair Financial Access Opportunities in Nigeria (microREPORT #86), Orozco, M. & Millis, B., USAID.
This report presents the findings of a study on remittances to Nigeria and explores policy and development implications.

 

3.      Sending Money Home: Worldwide Remittance Flows to Developing Countries, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
This report provides comparative indicators to measure the relative importance of remittances among twenty sub-regions of the developing world.

 

Savings and Credit

 

1.      Country-Level Savings Assessment Tool (Draft), Deshpande, R., Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).
A tool for conducting financial sector studies that identify opportunities and obstacles in increasing poor people's access to formal-sector deposit services.

 

2.      Deepening Outreach through Credit Unions: A Review of the WOCCU Ecuador Rural Savings and Credit with Education (CREER) Project (Research Brief), Grell, S., World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU).
This research brief highlights sustainability and outreach of savings and credit services with education program.

 

3.      Deepening Outreach through Credit Unions: A Review of the WOCCU Ecuador Rural Savings and Credit with Education (CREER) Project (Research Monograph), Grell, S., World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU).
This report reviews a CREER project that introduced the group savings and credit with education methodology to four mainstream credit unions in Ecuador.

 

4.      The True Cost of Deposit Mobilization (Draft), Deshpande, R. & Glisovic-Mezieres, J., Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP).
This draft report presents findings from an activity-based cost study of deposit services in five financial institutions.

 

Sector Overview & Development

 

1.      Feasibility Study for the Development of the Microfinance Sector in Israel, PlaNet Finance Israel.
This study presents the potential, constraints and opportunities to develop microfinance in Israel.

 

2.      Rural Development Outcomes and Drivers: An Overview and Some Lessons, Fernando, N., Asian Development Bank (ADB).
This book provides insights on policies and approaches for inclusive rural development based on a cross-country review of experiences.

 

3.      State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2007, Daley-Harris, S., The Microcredit Summit Campaign (MCS).
This report outlines progress towards reaching the goal of 100 million of the world's poorest families.

 

Other New literature

 

1.      Beyond Lending: How Microfinance Creates New Forms of Capital to Fight Poverty, Abed, F. & Matin, I., BRAC.
This paper focuses on microfinance innovations that address a wide range of constraints facing the poor.

 

2.      Lending Without Access to Collateral - A Theory of Micro-Loan Borrowing Rates & Defaults, Cheung, S. & Sundaresan, S., Columbia Business School.
This paper presents a simple model of microcredit lending without collateral to determine the equilibrium borrowing rates and default probabilities

 

3.      Savings Banks' Socially Responsible Activities, A Wealth of Experience - Insights from WSBI Members in Africa, Asia and the Americas, World Savings Banks Institute (WSBI).

This report illustrates the diversity of Corporate Social Responsibility policies and projects launched by various savings banks, based on case studies provided by WSBI members.

 

4.      Structured Microfinance in China, Bystrom, H., Department of Economics, Lund University.
This paper discusses the potential for commercial microfinance in China with greater emphasis on securitization of microloans and structured microfinance.

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