"The book explores the vital role played by the financial service industries in enabling the poor to consume over the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requires means, but these industries offered something else as well - they offered practical marketing devices that captured, captivated...

An edited compilation of articles that focus on using financial engineering - a multidisciplinary field that uses technical methods from the fields of finance, mathematics and economics - to design financial services for low-income households. The book aims to provide an understanding of the...

1. Unearthing the 'very dirt of private fact' : the work of market devices -- 2. Groovy like the market? Problems with fit and adaptation in government schemes to insure the poor -- 3. Organising charisma : the role of doorstep finance agents -- 4. Following the lines from conversation to...

Mobile Financial service is one of the cutting edge movements to bank the unbanked by integrating donor and enterprise market approaches for financial inclusion. In this paper, we address how to integrate Donors-Led Value Chain and Enterprises-Led Value Chain to get a sustainable impact on the...

Then a separate code has been developed in context-related data to show how other codes can be prioritized in relation to the Egyptian market as well as the mobile telecommunication industry.Findings & Contribution: The key inquiry of our research is not whether the market-based approaches work...