Advanced technologies for microfinance solutions and challenges /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Ashta, Arvind.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.
• Subjects: Microfinance.; Technological innovations.; Free and open source software; Microfinance institutions; Mobile banking; Point of sale technology; Come to save cooperatives; Developing and emergent financial markets; Online financing; Peer-to-peer microlending web sites; Interest rates; Microcredits
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"This book offers research on the microfinance movement that is providing poor people around the world an opportunity to take responsibility for their lives by providing them complementary elements such as financial capital and guidance"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Stakeholder analysis of IT applications for microfinance / Krishna Nyapati
• 2. Free & open source software for microfinance / Britta Augsburg, Jan Schmidt, Karuna Krishnaswamy
• 3. IT and MIS in microfinance institution effectiveness and sustainability issues / S. Quadri, Vikas Singh, Kishen Iyengar
• 4. Automating MFIs / Saleh Khan
• 5. A case study of Mifos implementation at Asomi / Puspadhar Das
• 6. Implementing point of sale technology in microfinance / Abu Musa, Mostafa Khan
• 7. Predicting the attitude toward mobile financial services in developing countries / Prateek Shrivastava
• 8. A technology requirements and governance framework for rural microfinance / Nandu Kulkarni
• 9. Saving through the mobile / Olga Morawczynski
• 10. Can information and communication technologies improve the performance of microfinance programs? / Fredj Jawadi, Nabila Jawadi, Ydriss Ziane
• 11. Marketing analysis of emerging peer-to-peer microlending websites / Djamchid Assadi, Meredith Hudson
• 12. The use of Web 2.0 technologies in online lending and impact on different components of interest rates / Arvind Ashta, Djamchid Assadi
• 13. EDA CapitalConnect / Daniel Brett, Nikias Stefanakis
• 14. The role of credit scoring in micro lending / Lilian Simbaqueba, Gehiner Salamanca, Vitalie Bumacov
• 15. A systemic / Carmen Lozano, Federico Fuentes
• 16. Microfinance from LDCS to DCS / Samanthala Hettihewa, Christopher Wright
• 17. Information technology and microfinance in developed countries / Glòria Estapé-Dubreuil, Consol Torreguitart-Mirada
• 18. Portal to Portaloo / Jack Sim, Karl Dayson.