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Building better lives: Sustainable integration of microfinance with education in child survival, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS prevention for the poorest entrepreneurs.
This chapter provides diverse examples of microfinance institutions that have responded successfully to the challenge of integrating microfinance with non-financial services, without compromising the impacts or sustainability of their microfinance and overall operations.
Building better lives: Sustainable integration of microfinance and education in child survival, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS prevention for the poorest entrepreneurs.
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Abstract
This paper provides diverse examples of microfinance institutions that have responded successfully to the challenge of integrating microfinance with non-financial services, without compromising the impacts or sustainability of their microfinance and overall operations.
All aboard! Adding new wheels to the microfinance locomotive.
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Abstract
Over the last several decades, microfinance institutions have created an infrastructure of service delivery to the poor. Tens of thousands of microfinance field officers fan out across the developing world every day to meet groups of borrowers.
Adding value to microfinance and to public health education—at the same time.
Abstract
The impact research in Ghana reinforced by the operations research in the Philippines shows that public health and microfinance objectives can be achieved at the same time with the same staff through careful integration of education and financial service delivery.
Business training for microfinance clients: how it matters and for whom.
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Abstract
This study evaluates the impact of adding entrepreneurial training to a microfinance program. It measures the impact of a business training program for female microentrepreneur clients of a group banking program of FINCA Peru, an MFI that sponsors village banks for poor, female microentrepreneurs.
A business model for going down market: Combining village banking and credit unions.
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Abstract
This paper investigates a business model for profitably serving the poorest segments of the microfinance market, along with some encouraging preliminary results. This article explores a creative way to break old paradigms in the quest to fulfill the dual objectives of outreach and sustainability.
