Microfinance: Emerging Trends and Challenges

✍ Scribed by Sundaresan, Suresh(Editor)

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 142
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book takes a solid step toward a systematic analysis of the implications of microfinance for the role and regulation of capital markets. The authors address integration of capital markets with microfinance, technological innovations such as the use of mobile phone technology, the consequences of women's access to micro-loan borrowings, and the regulatory challenges and opportunities emerging as the landscape of microfinance dramatically evolves.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 6
Preface......Page 11
1. The changing landscape of microfinance......Page 13
2. The role of international capital markets in microfinance......Page 37
3. Securitization and micro-credit backed securities (MCBS)......Page 58
4. Cell phones for delivering micro-loans......Page 83
5. How should governments regulate microfinance?......Page 97
6. Gender empowerment in microfinance......Page 120
Index......Page 135