Dear Readers, I am a student of Frankfurt School, a German based research-led business school, covering every aspect of business, management, banking and finance. As student, I am conducting a research on Credit Information Sharing for microfinance in sub-Sahara Africa. The aim of the study is to get information on the credit information sharing market... 

From PoliEcon This article investigates the understandings and perceptions of (micro)insurance among low-income people in southern Ghana, using evidence from four focus group discussions. It analyzes how the focus group participants think about various types of insurance – among them a micro life insurance product – and how their negative and/or... 

From PoliEcon This article is distinct in its application of the logit transformation to the poverty ratio for the purpose of empirically examining whether the financial sector helps improve standards of living for low-income people. We propose the term financial permeation to describe how financial networks expand to spread money among the poor.... 

From PoliEcon This paper analyses collusion-proof multilateral insurance contracts between a risk neutral insurer and multiple risk averse agents in an environment of asymmetric costly state verification. Optimal contracts involve the group of agents pooling uncertainty and the insurer acting as reinsurer to the group, auditing and paying a claim... 

From PoliEcon This paper draws a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity. Taking full advantage of daily quoted prices of microfinance stocks from their issuance, we construct microfinance country equity indices and an international global microfinance index. We analyze changes in these indices, assessed in reference to comparable indices... 

In the recent time microfinance has received increased attention among the researchers and financial service providers, as a good alternative in the rural credit market. Various studies revealed that microfinance is a powerful instrument for poverty alleviation, enabling the poor to accumulate the assets, boost their incomes, and reduce their... 

Garand, Denis and John Wipf ADA / BRS / Microinsurance Network 2010 The second edition of this handbook includes the feedback and suggestions made by microinsurance practioners and experts. The French and Spanish versions will be available in spring 2011. Request hard copy: info@microinsurancenetwork.org pdf (English) Tweet Read More →

Press Release from Wall’s Street Advisor Services (WSAS) - Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) are expected to increasingly approach the public stock markets to raise equity capital and to provide entry and exit points for investors, with SKS Microfinance (India) providing the most recent example of this. But, listing shares for public trading opens... 

From Microfinance Gateway - 2010, Reinsch, M. & Metcalfe, M. Can MFIs feasibly offer health-related services? Focusing on the impact of the MAHP (Microfinance and Health Protection) services on CARD (Center for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mutually Reinforcing Institutions), this paper explores the hypothesis that MFIs can feasibly offer... 

From University of East Anglia UK - Maren Duvendack’s new working paper entitled “Smoke and Mirrors: Evidence of Microfinance Impact from an Evaluation of SEWA Bank in India” is now available in the UEA DEV Working Paper Series. Microfinance has been on the development agenda for more than 30 years, heralded as the wondrous tool...