Gautam Ivatury

Donor Brief No. 23, April 2005
Funding Microfinance Technology
New technologies are available to help microfinance providers improve efficiency, track operations more accurately, increase transparency, and reach new customers, yet MFIs struggle to select the right technologies and get the most from their investments. This Donor Brief offers guidance on how to ensure microfinance providers follow good investment and management principles when choosing and implementing new technologies.

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September 2004
Breaking Down the Walls between Microfinance and the Formal Financial System
(adapted from Elizabeth Littlefield and Richard Rosenberg, “Microfinance and the Poor: Breaking Down the Walls between Microfinance and Formal Finance,” Finance & Development 41, no. 2 (June 2004): 38-40)
There is a dawning understanding that developing countries’ financial systems need to be more accessible to poor people and that there are practical ways to make this happen. All kinds of financial institutions–regulators, mainstream rating agencies, commercial and state banks, insurance companies, and credit bureaus–are starting to play a part in developing sound, inclusive financial systems that serve the majority of poor countries citizens.

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