From Microfinance to Small Firm Finance The Business Case for Private Capital Investments

by Leleux, Benoit

• ISBN13: 9780230019799
• ISBN10: 023001979X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This edited collection of papers presents the business case for micro and small business finance.

Author Biography

BENOIT LELEUX is Stephen Schmidheiny Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at IMD, Switzerland.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Foreword	p. ix
I. Pictet	p. xiii
IMD	p. xv
S. Bernard	p. xvii
J.F. Freymond and X. Escobar de Nogales	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xxii
Abbreviations	p. xxiv
Glossary	p. xxvi
Notes on Contributors	p. xxx
Introduction	p. 1
Transcript of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's remarks at the Geneva Private Capital Symposium: Investing Private Capital in Micro & Small Business Finance, 10 October 2005	p. 16
Market Demand	p. 19
The Demand for Micro and Small Business Finance: The $500 Billion Question	p. 21
Institution Building	p. 47
An Analysis of Microfinance Business Models	p. 49
Downscaling Projects in CIS countries - Revisited	p. 80
Case Study - ICICI Bank	p. 100
Private Capital in Microfinance	p. 109
Capital for Microfinance: From Public and Social Investment to Integration into Mainstream Financial Markets	p. 111
Challenges in the Transition to Private Capital	p. 126
A Real Business Case on its Way	p. 139
Structural Factors in Microfinance	p. 145
Building Inclusive Financial Sector for Development: The Policy Framework	p. 147
Assessing Microfinance Institutions	p. 167
Rating Microfinance Institutions in Latin America and Africa	p. 169
Rating Microfinance Institutions in Asia	p. 174
The Geneva Private Capital Symposium: Speakers' and Chairs' organizations	p. 177
Common Financial Ratios for Assessing Microfinance Institutions	p. 191
Comments on the Geneva Private Capital Symposium, 2005	p. 202
Index	p. 205
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