Recommended reading |
Microfinance:
| Small Customers, Big Market: Commercial Banks in Microfinance , by Malcolm Harper and Sukhwinder Singh Arora (2005) |
| Pathways out of poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families , by Sam Dailey Harris |
| Banker to the Poor , by Muhammad Yunus |
| Mainstreaming Microfinance , by Elisabeth Rhyne |
| The Price of a Dream , by David Bornstein |
| The New World of Microenterprise Finance: Building Healthy Financial Institutions for the Poor , by Maria Otero and Elisabeth Rhyne |
| State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2003 , by Sam Daley-Harris |
International development:
| The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century , by Thomas L. Friedman |
| The Poor and Their Money , by Stuart Rutherford |
| Development as Freedom , by Amartya Sen |
| The Mystery of Capital , by Hernando DeSoto |
| The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor , by David S. Landes |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies , by Jared Diamond |
| The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid , by C.K. Prahalad |
| How to Change the World , by David Bornstein |
Globalisation:
| The Lexus and the Olive Tree , by Thomas Friedman |
| The Story of Bank of America , by Marquis James and Bessie R. James |
Links |
www.accion.org: ACCION International is Unitus's Strategic Partner in the Unitus - ACCION Alliance for India. It is a private, non-profit organisation providing micro-enterprise loans, business training, and other financial services to the poor. A world pioneer in microfinance, ACCION was founded in 1961 and issued the first micro-loan in 1973 in Brazil. Its partner MFIs are active in 20 countries.
www.asadev.com: Activists for Social Alternatives (ASA) is a non-profit NGO working in the drought-prone, poverty ridden area of central Tamilnadu (TN). The microfinance programme started in 1992 was registered as a separate entity, the Grama Vidiyal Trust, in 1997.
www.bandhanmf.com - Bandhan started as a capacity building institution (CBI) in November 2000, and opened its first microfinance branch in 2005 to provide loans to disadvantaged women in India.
www.cgap.org - The Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest(CGAP) is a consortium of bilateral and multilateral donor agencies that support microfinance.
www.cmef.com - The Council for Microfinance Equity Funds (CMEF) is the first membership organisation bringing together the leading private entities that make equity investments in microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the developing world.
www.developmentgateway.org/microfinance - Microfinance on the Development Gateway is an online community of more than 6,000 professionals from 150 countries who share practical information with the aim of improving the effectiveness and sustainability of microfinance institutions around the world.
www.gdrc.org - The Global Development Research Center's virtual library on microcredit.
www.gfusa.org - Grameen Foundation USA (GFUSA) is a global non-profit organisation that combines microfinance, new technologies, and innovation to empower the world's poorest people to escape poverty.
www.grameen-info.org - The Grameen Bank Project was founded in 1976 by Prof. Muhammad Yunus. In 1983, it was transformed into a formal bank. It now provides credit and other microfinance products to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh.
www.grameenkoota.org - Grameen Koota is an MFI active in the Indian state of Karnataka since 1999.
www.mixmarket.org - The MIX Market aims to facilitate exchanges and investment flows, promote transparency and improve reporting standards in the microfinance industry.
www.marriottschool.byu.edu/microfinance - The Journal of Microfinance is a forum for ideas and information on the practice of microfinance and micro-enterprise development.
www.microcreditsummit.org - The Microcredit Summit Campaign promotes the development if MFIs worldwide.
www.microfinance.com - A compilation of reports, academic papers about microfinance and a listing of organisations involved in the microfinance industry.
www.omidyar.net/home/ - Omidyar Network is a mission-based investment group committed to fostering self-empowerment on a global scale, including in the area of microfinance. In November, 2005, Omidyar Network invested USD 100 million in the Omidyar - Tufts Microfinance Fund.
www.promujer.org - Pro Mujer is an MFI focusing on micro-loans and business and health education for women in Mexico, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru and Argentina.
www.seepnetwork.org - The Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network is an association of North American organisations that support small enterprise programmes in the developing world.
www.sksindia.com - SKS India is an MFI active since 1998 in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.
www.undp.org - The United Nations Development Programme.
http://www.parismfn.org/parismfn/2007/06/linking_remitta.html - Paris Microfinance Network
http://www.africa-interactive.net/index.php?PageID=4878 - Africa news