Bibliography

Learn More About Microfinance

Hereafter, you will find a non-exhaustive list of documents which will allow you to learn more about microfinance. You can also use our on-line library where you will find additional documents that can be downloaded.

Documents in French

  • "Microcrédit et maxiconso", Jean-François Jaudon, Editions Publibook (2008)
  • "On ne prête pas qu'aux riches": Maria Nowak. Editions J.-C. Lattès (2005)
  • "La Banquière de l'espoir. Celle qui prête aux exclus": Maria Nowak. Editions Albin Michel (1994)
  • "De la Finance Informelle à la microfinance" Michel Lelart. Editions des Archives contemporaines (2005)
  • "La microfinance en questions": Marc Labie. Editions Luc Pire (1999)
  • "Etude sur l'intégration des exclus par le travail indépendant et le microcrédit en Europe": Association pour le Droit à l'Initiative Economique (1999)
  • "Manuel de microfinance. Une perspective institutionnelle et financière": Joana Ledgerwood. Banque Mondiale (1999)
  • "Le rationnement du crédit dans les pays en développement": Anne Joseph. Editions L'Harmattan
  • "Microfinance. Orientations méthodologiques": Commission Européenne (2000)
  • "Les défis de la mobilisation de l'épargne. Concepts et visions de terrain": Alfred Hanning, Sylvia Wisniwski. GTZ Eschborn (1999)
  • "Questions clés en matière de microfinance et orientations pour l'avenir": Sylvain Larivière, Frédéric Martin et François Ethier. Université de Laval, Belgique (1998)
  • "Exclusion et liens financiers. Rapport du Centre Walras 2002":  Jean-Michel Servet et Isabelle Guerin. Economica (2002)
  • "Banquiers aux pieds nus : La microfinance", Jean Michel Servet. Edition Odile Jacob (2006)
  • "Le guide de la microfinance. Microcrédit et épargne pour le développement", Sébastien Boyé, Jérémy Hajdenberg, Christine Poursat et Maria Nowak (Préfacier), Edition d'Organisation (2006, réédition 2009)
  • "Une aventure en microfinance – Amret au Cambodge", Pierre Daubert, Editions Karthala, 335 pages, 2007.
  • "Le microcrédit ou le pari de l'Homme", entretien avec Maria Nowak, Edition Rue de l'échiquier, 126 pages, 2009

Documents in English

  • "Banker to the Poor": Muhammad Yunus. Published by Public Affairs (1999).
  • "The State of Microfinance in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independant States": Sarah Forster, Seth Greene and Justyna Pytkowska. CGAP Regional Reviews
  • "Development As Freedom": Amartya Sen. Published by Anchor Books/Doubleday (2001).
  • "Developing Commercially Viable Microfinance. Microfinance Handbook": Sylvia Wisniwski. Bankakademie International
  • "The Microfinance Revolution: Sustainable Finance for the Poor": Marguerite Robinson. Published by the World Bank (2001).
  • "Microfinance Systems: Designing Quality Financial Services for the Poor": Graham Wright. Published by Zed Books (2001).
  • "The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else": Hernando DeSoto. Published by Basic Books (2003).
  • "The New World of Microenterprise Finance: Building Healthy Financial Institutions for the Poor": María Otero and Elisabeth Rhyne. Published by Kumarian Press (1994).
  • "Financial literacy and poverty prevention in Italy": Fondazione Giordano Dell'Amore in U. Riefiner (ed.), "Financial Literacy and Poverty Prevention", unpublished
  • "Development microeconomics": Bardan P. and C. Udry. Oxford University Press (1999)
  • "Commercial Banks in Microfinance: New Actors in the Microfinance World": Baydas M. M., D. H. Graham and L. Valenzuela. Microenterprise Best Practices, USAID (1997)
  • "Maximizing the Outreach of Microenterprise Finance: The emerging Lessons of Successful Programs": CGAP. Focus Note N°2 (10/1995)
  • "Maximizing the Outreach of Microenterprise Finance: an analysis of successful microfinance programs": Christen et al. Program and operation assessment report N°10, USAID, Washington DC (1995)
  • "Building Customer Loyalty: A Practical Guide to Microfinance Institutions": Churchill C. and S. Halphern. Washington DC: Microfinance Network (2001)
  • "Reducing cost and managing risk in lending to microenterprise, handbook for micro-lending in Europe": Evers J., S. Lack, A. Loeff, H. Siewertsen. FACET and IFF, Hamburg (2002)
  • "Financial services, Europeans and financial services": Eurobarometer52. European Comission Eurobarometer Unit, Brussels (2000)
  • "Enterprises' access to finance": Commission of the European Communities. Bruxelles (2001)
  • "Creating an entrepreneurial Europe: The activities of the European Union for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)": European Commission, Brussels (2003)
  • "Income and non-income poverty in Europe: What is the minimum acceptable standard in an enlarged European Union?": Förster M., G. Tarcali and M. Till. Djurhamn, Sweden (2002)
  • "Strategic Issues in Microfinance": Kimenyi S., C. Wielaned and J. D. Von Pischke. Ashgate Publishing, Brookfield VT and Aldershot UK (1998)
  • "Microfinance: Broader Achievements and New Challenges": Gonzalez-Vega C. Economics and Sociology Occasional Paper N°2518. Ohio State University (1998)
  • "A failed institutional transplant: Raiffeisen credit cooperatives in Ireland 1984-1914": Guinnane T. Development Studies from Princeton, Woodrow Wilson School (1994)
  • "Microcredit: what can we learn from the past?": Hollis A. and A. Sweetman. Canada (1998)
  • "Women and microcredit in history: gender in the Irish loan funds": Hollis A. Canada (1999)
  • "Finance Against Poverty": Hulme D., P. Mosley. London (1996)
  • "Microfinance for employment creation and enterprise developpement": ILO. Geneva (2002)
  • "Microfinance in industrialized countries, helping the unemployed to start a business": ILO. United Kingdom (2002)
  • "Social exclusion indicators - progress of work, brainstorming on social indicators": Mejer L. and J. Schiepers. Strasbourg (2002)
  • "Banking the unbanked": McGill J. Touchpoints (2002)
  • "Poverty and Social Exclusion in Europe. European conparisoons and the impact of enlargement": Micklewright J. and K. Stewart. (2001)
  • "Part-time and self-employment": OECD. Paris (2001)
  • "The development of the financial sector in Southeast Europe": Von Pischke J. D. and Matthaus-Maier. Springer (2004)
  • "Aspects of Framework Discussion of the Social Benefit of Microfinance": Schreiner M. J. The Ohio State University (1999)
  • "Development finance institutions: measuring their subsidy": Schreiner M., Yaron J. World Bank. Washington D.C.
  • "El Cooperativismo de crédito en España 1890-1934: modelos, sistemas de gestion y balance de su actuacion": Soto A. P. M. Historia Agraria (2003)
  • "Peer Monitoring and Credit Markets": Stiglitz J. World Bank Economic Review Vol.4 (1990)
  • "Who-Is-Who in supporting local and micro finance": Sullivan J. Republic of Ireland (1998)
  • "Micro-credit in a UK context": Tucker J., J. Lean. ACCA Research Report, Journal of Finance and Management in Public Services, Cardiff Business School (2001)
  • "Microfinance Institutional building: the IPC story": Von Pischke J. D. and R. H. Schmidt. Draft (2002)
  • "The development of the financial sector in Southeast Europe": Von Pischke J. D. and I. Matthaus-Maier. Springer (2004)
  • "What makes finance institution successful" - Yaron J. World Bank research Observer (1994)
  • "The triangle of microfinance: financial sustainability, outreach and impact" - Zeller M. and R. Meyer. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London (2002)
  • "Guidelines for Impact Monitoring and Assessment in Microfinance Programmes" - Birgit Schafer. GTZ (2001)
  • "Social Economy: Building Inclusive Economies.", edited by Antonella Noya and Emma Clarence, OECD, (2007)

Documents in Spanish

  • "Microcréditos: la revolución silenciosa" - Antonio Claret-Garcia and Jesús Lens, DEBATE, June 2007

Documents in Portuguese

  • “Estratégias empresarias de imigrates em Portugal” – Catarina Reis de Oliveira, Observatorio da Imigração, ACIME, December 2004
  • “Empresários de origem imigrante: estratégias de inserção económica em Portugal” – Catarina Reis de Oliveira, ACIME, September 2005

Documents in Italian

  • “Otto modi di dire microcrédito” – Daniele Ciravegna and Andrea Limone, Il Mulino, 2006

Documents on the Web

  • Bringing Development Back into Microfinance, Journal of Microfinance - María Otero.
  • Is Microfinance an Effective Strategy to Reach the Millennium Development Goals? - Focus Note 24 –Elizabeth Littlefield; Johnathan Murduch; Syed Hashemi.
  • Microfinance and the Poor: Breaking down walls between microfinance and formal finance - Elizabeth Littlefield et Richard Rosenberg.

Periodics

  • Revue d'économie financière
  • Revue des questions humanitaires
  • Savings and development
  • L'économie sociale. De nouveaux instruments de financement
  • Revue des études coopératives mutualistes associatives
  • Small enterprise development