The microfinance movement aims to deliver financial services to the poor and the ‘unbanked' in the developing world. Microfinance providers are NGO-based partnerships between grassroots and aid agencies. ICTs are seen as a driver for economic growth and organisational change in developing...

We examine the relationship between terroristic activity and external support to the microfinance industry from private and public donors in the form of subsidies and donations, as well as the relationship between subsidies and donations in the context of terrorism. Using information from 94...

Military leaders do not currently have an effective method to guide the allocation of economic development funds. The purpose of this article is to present a tool that will help guide how a ground commander can best allocate available funds in order to raise a communities economic output. The...

In most countries, reaching scale and providing real value to clients will likely require donor involvement in the medium term. Donors will need appropriate expertise and resources to engage effectively in micro insurance because it is relatively new, complex, and risky. Donors have diverse...

“Modern” integrated value chains need not necessarily exclude the smallest producers as this book aims to explain in detail by case studies. The issue is particularly topical in India, where modern retailing has come to the scene only recently and the majority of whose population are still...

The contemporary model of microfinance has its roots in a small local experiment in Bangladesh in the early 1970s undertaken by Dr Muhammad Yunus, the US-educated Bangladeshi economist and future 2006 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient. Yunus's idea of supporting tiny informal microenterprises and...

Despite the rise in recent decades in the average income level, economic insecurity has also increased. True for both developing and developed countries, this increasing economic insecurity is harmful for human welfare for several reasons. Job and income insecurity directly affect the material...