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  • bKash Bangladesh : a fast start for mobile financial services (English)

    The first mobile financial service deployments were launched in Bangladesh in mid-2011, and by the end of 2013 they were being used by 22 percent of the adult population (intermedia 2014) - a fast start...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 90952 Document Date: July 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Rasmussen,Stephen F.

  • Kenya - The Jipange KuSave experiment in Kenya (English)

    Two trends in financial inclusion that are widely discussed today are the development of savings products designed specifically for poor clients and the ability to deliver financial products over the mobile...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 75154 Document Date: October 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ferrand,David,Rasmussen,Stephen F.,Rotman,Sarah Catherine

  • Indian Microfinance Goes Public : the SKS Initial Public Offering (English)

    SKS, the largest microfinance institution (MFI) in India, opened its IPO on July 28, 2010, forging the way for other Indian MFIs to follow. The IPO valued SKS at 4.2 times its post-issue book value and...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 82618 Document Date: September 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Rasmussen,Stephen F.,Reille,Xavier,Rozas,Daniel

  • Growth and vulnerabilities in microfinance (English)

    This focus note begins by briefly telling the story of recent growth in the four countries leading into the credit delinquency crises. The second section describes the key contextual factors that affected...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 56627 Document Date: February 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Rasmussen,Stephen F.,Reille,Xavier

  • Growth and vulnerabilities in microfinance (Russian)

    This focus note begins by briefly telling the story of recent growth in the four countries leading into the credit delinquency crises. The second section describes the key contextual factors that affected...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 56627 Document Date: February 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Rasmussen,Stephen F.,Reille,Xavier

  • Growth and vulnerabilities in microfinance (Arabic)

    This focus note begins by briefly telling the story of recent growth in the four countries leading into the credit delinquency crises. The second section describes the key contextual factors that affected...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 56627 Document Date: February 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Chen,Gregory C.,Rasmussen,Stephen F.,Reille,Xavier

  • Microfinance in South Asia : toward financial inclusion for the poor (English)

    In South Asia, the modern microfinance movement was born in Bangladesh in the 1970s as a response to the prevailing poverty conditions among its vast rural population. Astonishing growth rates in Bangladesh...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 79747 Document Date: December 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sinha, Sanjay,Rasmussen,Stephen F.,Brar,Amitabh,Sinha,Frances,Ivatury,Gautam J.,Matin,Imran,Verma,Niraj,Rutherford,Stuart Edward,Hashemi,Syed Mesbahuddin

  • Economics and governance of nongovernmental organizations in Bangladesh (English)

    This report shows that Bangladesh has made striking progress on a range of social indicators over the last 15 years, an achievement widely credited to the country's pluralist service provision regime...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 38291 Document Date: April 16, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alamgir,Dewan,Annamalai,Nagavalli,Appasamy,Irajen,Hasan,Mirza Hamid,Hossain,Naomi Therese,Safi,Nawab Khan,Matsaert, Frank,Rasmussen,Stephen F.,Zaman,Hassan,Zannath,Suraiya

  • Rural finance in Afghanistan and the challenge of the opium economy (English)

    The workshop was intended to explore and address the issue of opium credit and indebtedness as well as the development of rural finance more generally and the role of national development programs in this...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 33275 Document Date: December 13, 2004 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Byrd,William,Goeldner, Karri A.,Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate,Maimbo,Samuel Munzele,Mansfield,David,Pearce,Douglas,Radcliffe,David John,Rasmussen,Stephen F.,Ward,Christopher S.,Zeballos, Erick,Zia, Mohammad Ehsan

  • Pakistan: scaling up rural support programs (English)

    Pakistan's Rural Support Program (RSP) movement pioneered bottom-up, community-driven development using a flexible, autonomous, politically neutral approach, which has been replicated successfully. RSPs...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 30833 Document Date: May 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Bajwa,Rashid,Abdul Ghaffar,Jeehan Nawaf Abdul Malik,Mansoor, Aadil,Piracha, M. Mujtaba,Rasmussen,Stephen F.