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Articles by: USAID (73 items)

MD Overview: Clients Affected by HIV/AIDS (2008)
Role of MFIs in mitigating devastating effects of HIV/AIDS on poor households and communities.
AusAID Regional Microfinance Support Facility (2005)
How can Australia step up its support to microfinance?
Development & Financing of Selected Value Chains in Mali: Research & Workshop Summary (2007)
Report of workshop organized by USAID on competitiveness and financing in agricultural value chains, April 10-13, Bamako, Mali.
Microfinance Umbrella Programs Study: An Analysis of USAID Experience Using Umbrella Programs to Support Microfinance Markets and Institutions (2006)
This report highlights advantages and disadvantages of USAID's umbrella programs, addressing concerns and identifying lessons to guide staff.
Malawi - Malawians Gain Through Microfinance (Note from the Field) (2004)
Mission Malawi: USAID’s initiatives in creating sustainable microfinance
Nicaragua - USAID Trains Junior Cuppers (Note from the Field) (2005)
How has a new skill for the children of coffee producers helped increase quality and production of coffee in Nicaragua?
Egypt - Enhancing Quality, Boosting Incomes (Note from the Field) (2005)
How does the USAID initiative in Egypt empower small-scale dairy producers and increase their incomes?
Australian Aid: Approaches to Microfinance and Enterprise Development (2006)
AusAid's approach to building a stronger worldwide microfinance industry
USAID Tsunami Reconstruction Update Oct 2005 (2005)
Information on the progress of post-tsunami reconstruction initiatives by USAID
Microfinance and HIV/AIDS: Defining Options (Note From the Field Kenya) (2005)
A note on microfinance and HIV/AIDS strategy training for Kenyan microfinance institution managers
Value Chain Approach to Poverty Reduction: Equitable Growth in Today’s Global Economy (2005)
How does the Value Chain Approach work?
Amendments to Georgian Civil Code February 2005 (2005)
What are the provisions for the re-registration of microfinance organizations in Georgia?
Performance Measurement Framework for Business Development Services: USAID Microenterprise Best Practices Project Field Test Impact Survey Guide (2000)
How to do a Performance Measurement Framework Impact Assessment for business development services?
Savings Mobilization: Cases from Region (2003)
How have institutions shaped their micro-savings products in the Arabic region?
Developing Poverty Assessment Tools (2004)
Techniques, designs, accomplishments and outcomes of developing a poverty appraisal tools
Linking the Poor to Opportunity: The Microenterprise Development Initiative (2003)
USAID’s microenterprise development strategy and highlights of its achievements in 2001
A Microfinance Training Simulation: Client Risk and HIV/AIDS and the Challenges of Mutual Guarantee-based Programs (2001)
Microfinance in high-risk environment: learning by doing
Banking Like Never Before: U.S. Finance Guarantees South African Savings and Loan Participation (2004)
A joint venture formed between Capitec Bank, Futuregrowth Asset Management and USAID to further expand lending and savings services.
Commercial Banks in Microfinance: New Actors in the Microfinance World (1997)
Searching for Differences: Microfinance Following Conflict vs. Other Environments (2004)
Developing Post-Conflict Microfinance Institutions: The Experiences of Liberia and Kosovo (2004)
Developing a Post-Conflict Microfinance Industry: The Case of Cambodia (2004)
Microfinance Following Conflict: Introduction to Technical Briefs (2004)
This is the first of a series of seven technical briefs discussing microfinance in postconflict environments.
Environmental Preconditions for Successful Post-Conflict Microfinance (2004)
Security Issues for Microfinance Following Conflict (2004)
How to avoid security risk in conflict affected areas?
Microfinance for Special Groups: Refugees, Demobilized Soldiers, and Other Populations (2004)
Open Forum: Developing Certification Criteria for the USAID Poverty Assessment Tools Project - Jan. 30, 2004 (2004)
This open forum for microenterprise professionals will solicit input on the selection on certification criteria for poverty assessment tools
Controlling Fraud in Microfinance Programs (1995)
Ways of minimising fraud in business practices
Calculating Effective Interest Rates on Microcredit Loans (1995)
Counting the cost of microcredit
Beyond Self-Sufficiency: Licensed Leverage and Microfinance Strategy (1995)
The need for leverage in a successful microfinance market
Business Linkages and Microenterprise Development (1995)
What advantages do linkages bring to the microenterprise market?
How do Women Fare in the Microenterprise Sector? (1995)
Developing the role of the female entrepreneur
Controlling Delinquency (1995)
The challenges in tackling delinquency
Evaluating Microenterprise Finance Programs (1995)
How are microenterprise programs performing and how can they be improved?
Grameen Bank's Sixteen Decisions (1995)
The secrets behind the success of the Grameen Bank
Business Associations and Microenterprise Development (Microenterprise Development Brief No. 28) (1995)
What type of support association do microenterprises require?
Investing in the Future: Report of the Task Force for Small and Medium Enterprise in Poland (1993)
What are the constraints affecting small and medium enterprise (SMEs) businesses in Poland?
Credit Unions and Microenterprises: The WOCCU Perspective (1993)
Why is institutional development of credit unions important?
What Are Microenterprises And What Activities Does The USAID Microenterprise Initiative Support? (1995)
What kinds of programs is USAID funding?
Is Informal Finance Desirable? Q&A With Claudio Gonzalez- Vega, Ohio State University (1995)
Explaining aspects of informal finance through elementary questions
Micronet-1: An Electronic Mailing List for Microenterprise Issues (1995)
What is MICROnet?
Background Documents to the Seminar on the Private Sector in West Africa (1992)
Towards an appropriate legal and economic environment for business
Study of Informal Cross-border Trade, Poland (1992)
The influence of instability of the former Soviet Union on cross- border trade
Study of the Informal Commercial Sector, Poland (1992)
Are policies on street and market trade necessary?
Key Findings on the Growth and Dynamics of Microenterprises and the Micro/Small Enterprise (MSE) Sector? (1995)
Implications for policy
Regulation and Prudential Supervision for Microfinance Program: Making the Leap into the Formal System (1995)
What are the issues in regulating microenterprise finance organisations?
Institutional Options for Transitional Economies: Four Models for Small Business Policy Making and Program Implementation (1995)
Model choices for micro and small enterprises
State-Owned Agricultural Development Banks: An Untapped Infrastructure for Microfinance? (1995)
Can agricultural development banks restructure in order to deliver microcredit?
Principles of Financially Viable Lending To Poor Entrepreneurs (1995)
Which program design features can ensure sustainable credit provision?
Operational Issues: Designing Financial Services for Women (1995)
How can the needs and preferences of women clients be met?
Micro-Credit Benefits the Client: Evidence from Control Group Studies (1997)
Microenterprise programs: positive effects
Transformation Lending (1995)
Why is transformation lending important for business development?
Non-Financial Assistance to Microentrepreneurs (1995)
How can business development services be delivered?
USAID Microenterprise Development Office: Services and Activities (1995)
Implementing USAID's microenterprise initiative (MI)
Microenterprise and Agribusiness (1995)
Exploring and exploiting linkages
Providing Cost-Effective, Indirect Assistance to Microenterprises (1995)
Where can support be channelled most effectively?
The Role for Solidarity Group Lending in Microenterprise Financing (1995)
What are the special features of solidarity group lending?
Policy Goals, Reform, and Microenterprise Development (1995)
What policies can the government implement in order to support small and medium enterprises?
The Institutional Evolution of the Microenterprise Field, 1989- 1995 (1995)
What changes has the microfinance sector experienced?
Microenterprise Innovation Project (MIP) at a Glance (1996)
Outlining project components
Managing Growth in Microfinance Institutions: Lessons from the ACCION Experience (1995)
How is ACCION enabling its affiliates to develop?
Credit Unions: A Formal Sector Alternative for Financing Microenterprise Development in Developing Countries (1991)
What is the role of credit unions in small-scale enterprise lending?
Microenterprise Development Policy Paper (1995)
Outlining USAID activities in microenterprise development
The USAID Microenterprise Initiative Statement of Renewal (1997)
New targets for the Microenterprise Initiative
USAID Microenterprise Activity Report (1998)
What is USAID's involvement in microfinance?
Informe de la Conferencia: Instituciones Bancarias: Proporcionando Servicios en Microfinanzas, Santiago de Chile, Abril 1998 (1998)
What are the key issues facing the contemporary microfinance sector?
Proceedings: The Commercialization of Microfinance, Nairobi, Kenya, May 1998 (1998)
Combining poverty outreach with sustainability in microfinance
Working Without a Net: Women in the Asian Financial Crisis (2000)
How are women vulnerable to financial crises?
Glossary of Standard Financial Terms, Ratios and Adjustments for Microfinance (2002)
Can there be standard definitions and calculation methods for financial indicators used to analyse MFI performance?
Plate-forme d'Abidjan: stratégies d'appui aux mutuelles de santé en Afrique (1999)
Contribution actuelle et potentielle des mutuelles au financement, à la fourniture et à l’accès aux soins de santé, Etudes de cas au Mali (1998)
Contribution Actuelle et Potentielle des Mutuelles au Financement, a la Fourniture et a l'acces aux soins de sante: Etudes de cas au Benin (1998)
"Ce document propose quatre études de cas de mutuelles de santé au Bénin : deux mutuelles du sud Borgou, la Mutuelle Ilera de Porto-Novo et la Mutuelle Alafia de Gbaffo."
Contribution actuelle et potentielle des mutuelles au financement, à la fourniture et à l’accès aux soins de santé, études de cas au Sénégal (1998)
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