New Partnerships for Innovation in Microfinance

Partnerships to Leverage Private Investment.- New Partnerships for Sustainability and Outreach.- Raising MFI Equity Through Microfinance Investment Funds.- Market Transparency: The Role of Specialised MFI Rating Agencies.- MFI Equity: An Investment Opportunity for the Broader Public?.- Microfinance and Economic Growth - Reflections on Indian Experience.- Microfinance Investments and IFRS: The Fair Value Challenge.- Partnerships to Leverage Private Investment.- Technology Partnerships to Scale up Outreach.- Remittance Money Transfers, Microfinance and Financial Integration: Of Credo, Cruxes, and Convictions.- Remittances and MFIs: Issues and Lessons from Latin America.- Using Technology to Build Inclusive Financial Systems.- Information Technology Innovations That Extend Rural Microfinance.- Banking the Unbanked: Issues in Designing Technology to Deliver Financial Services to the Poor.- Can Credit Scoring Help Attract Profit-Minded Investors to Microcredit?.- Credit Scoring: Why Scepticism Is Justified.- Partnerships to Mobilise Savings and Manage Risk.- Micropensions: Old Age Security for the Poor?.- Cash, Children or Kind? Developing Old Age Security for Low-Income People in Africa.- Microinsurance: Providing Profitable Risk Management Possibilities for the Low-Income Market.- Securitisation: A Funding Alternative for Microfinance Institutions.- Reducing Barriers to Microfinance Investments: The Role of Structured Finance.

From the reviews:

"The book presents valuable information with a strong analytical tilt. ... targets economists and managers in banking and development finance organizations, as well as policy makers, international development organizations, and development agencies. Because it covers a range of issues related to funding microfinance, and is written in relatively simple language, yet intelligently argued, it can be used as a resource book for courses on microfinance funding and development. ... a useful read for practitioners in the sector." (Meryem E. Faris, Microfinance Insights, Issue 7, July, 2008)