Overview

This book shows commercial bankers that they can profitably provide microfinance services to the poor. It illustrates, through the experience of particular banks, why banks have become involved and how they have made a success of their involvement. The eighteen case studies all show that banks can earn good profits at the same time as serving the needs of people who previously lacked access to financial services. The authors also demonstrate to foreign aid donors, policymakers, NGO staff and microfinance practitioners that it is often quicker, less expensive and more effective for micro-finance services to be provided by commercial banks than by specialist microfinance institutions.

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Author:   Malcolm Harper ,  Sukhwinder Arora
Publisher:   Practical Action Publishing
Imprint:   Practical Action Publishing
Edition:   Annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9781853396083

ISBN 10:   1853396087
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 December 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Why should commercial banks be interested in microfinance? Part I: CASE STUDIES 1. 'The micro-banking division of Bank Rakyat Indonesia: a flagship of rural micro-finance in Asia' by Hans Dieter Seibe 2. 'Mainstreaming Grameen Banking' by Fabrizio Felloni, Hans Dieter Seibel and Andres Cornejo 3. 'The Bank of Khyber' by Amjad Ali Arbab 4. 'Wholesale microfinance: Sonali Bank, Bangladesh' by M. Abdul Awal and Abul Kalam Azad 5. 'Microfinance through self-help groups: an Indian Experiment - case study of the State Bank of India' by Vijay Kulkarni 6. 'Canara Bank, alanganallur Branch, madurai district, Tamil Nadu, India' by R. Srinivasan 7. 'Oriental Bank of Commerce's microfinance project' by Ravinder Yadav 8. 'Icici Bank' by Tara Nair, M.S. Sriram and Viswanath Prasad 9. 'Microfinance at Banque du Caire, Egypt' by Cathryn Carlson 10. 'Strategic partnerships in microfinance: the case of the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe' by Kenneth Rufasha 11. 'Equity Building Society's market-led approach to microfinance in Kenya' by Graham A.N. Wright and James Mwangi 12. 'FINADEV SA: the first commercial bank in microfinance in West Africa-Benin' by Late Lawson and Herman Messan 13. 'Banco Solidario' by Melita Sawyer and Maria Soledad Jarrin 14. 'Bancafe, Guatemala' by Job Blijdenstein 15. 'The service company model: Sogesol in Haiti' by Elizabeth Rhyne 16. 'The American Bank of Kosovo (ABK)' by Veronica Gilbert and Roshika Singh 17. 'Commercial banks in microfinance in Georgia' by Teona Mikadze and Guillemette Jaffrin 18. 'Agricultural Bank of Mongolia' by J. Peter Morrow, Jay Dyer and Robin Young Part II: CONCLUSIONS Index

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Malcolm Harper taught at Cranfield School of Management until 1995, and since then has worked mainly in India. He has published on enterprise development and microfinance. He was Chairman of Basix Finance from 1996 until 2006, and is Chairman of M-CRIL, the microfinance credit rating agency. Sukhwinder Arora is Senior Consultant, Financial and Private Sector Development, Oxford Policy Management Ltd, Oxford.

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