Microfinance for Bankers and Investors, Part 4 - Socially Responsible Returns

Overview

Main description

The following chapter is from Microfinance for Bankers and Investors. Written in a non-academic, direct style, it is enhanced with detailed case studies that showcase innovative and entrepreneurial ventures into microfinance by some of the world's best-known corporations such as Citibank, Visa Inc. and Wal-Mart. The company-cases help bring microfinance to life, recounting the motivations that led these companies into inclusive finance, the opportunities, and the obstacles they saw and the results they have experienced so far.

Table of contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Understanding the BOP Market
Chapter 2. The Four Challenges of the BOP Market
Chapter 3. Product Design for BOP Clients
Chapter 4. Three Products: Insurance, Housing Finance and Remittances
Chapter 5. Corporate Choices
Chapter6. Commercial Banks as Microlenders
Chapter 7. Models of Micro-Insurance
Chapter 8. Retailers as Channels
Chapter 9. Financing Inclusive Finance
Chapter 10. Financial Infrastructure
Chapter 11. Payments Technologies Reduce Costs and Increase Convenience
Chapter 12 Approaches to Social Responsibility
Chapter13 Measuring the Social Bottom Line