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Articles by: Wright, G. (80 items)

The Single Biggest Challenge for Microfinance (2008)
Challenges in training and capacity building for MFIs
The Market Led Revolution of Equity Bank (MicroSave Briefing Note #63) (2008)
A look at Equity Bank’s success factors
The Credit-Deposit Ratio - Time for a Re-Think? (MicroSave India Focus Note 3) (2008)
Should Indian banks reduce their credit-deposit ratios?
Managing Growth of MFIs: ASA Bangladesh - Single-minded Growth (2008)
This paper describes ASA’s growth strategy.
The MicroSave-India Market-led Financial Services Programme (MicroSave India Focus Note 1) (2008)
An overview of MicroSave India’s program for Indian financial institutions.
Microfinance - Meeting The Challenges to Realise the Potential (MicroSave India Focus Note 2) (2008)
Growth potential of the Indian microfinance sector.
Electronic Banking: The Next Revolution in Financial Access? (MicroSave India Focus Note 4) (2008)
Reasons for failures in e-banking initiatives in India and solutions for success
Are Loan Utilisation Checks Really Necessary? (MicroSave India Focus Note 7) (2008)
This paper suggests Indian MFIs to question the feasibility of their loan utilization checks.
What Does Competition Mean for Indian MFIs? (MicroSave India Focus Note 8) (2008)
This note derives lessons for Indian MFIs coping with a competitive environment.
Are There Lessons for India from Bangladesh? (MicroSave India Focus Note 12) (2008)
This paper suggests Indian microfinance to make strategic choices and learn from Bangladesh’s experience.
MicroSave Strategic Business Planning for Market-led Financial Institutions Toolkit (2007)
This document presents concepts, procedures and tools to help financial institutions interpret emerging trends and issues.
Lessons from MicroSave’s Action Research Programme (MicroSave Briefing Note #60) (2007)
This note documents the key lessons learned in building market-led microfinance activities.
MicroSave Briefing Note #53 - Loan Portfolio Audit in Practice (2007)
A tool for revealing important issues in the management, control and policies of MFIs loan portfolios.
MicroSave Briefing Note #56 - Cooperatives - The Flawed Gem of Indian Rural Finance (2007)
This note examines the reasons for the deterioration of rural Cooperative Credit Structure in the Indian rural finance system.
Teaching Elephants To Tango: Working with Post Banks to Realise their Full Potential (2006)
The relevance and the potential of post banks in serving large numbers of low income people.
Examining The Impact of MicroFinance Services: Increasing Income or Reducing Poverty? (2000)
Income: What weighs more - the level or the usage?
MicroSave Briefing Notes on Grameen II #8: Lessons from the Grameen II Revolution (2006)
This briefing note tracks the evolution of the Grameen II system in meeting the growing needs of Bangladeshi poor and becoming more "market-led".
MicroSave Briefing Note # 50 - Lessons from MicroSave's Action Research Programme (2005)
Steps-to-success for a microfinance institution
MicroSave Briefing Note # 47 - Mobile Phone-Based E-Banking: The Customer Value Proposition (2006)
Examining mobile phone-based e-banking solutions to address customer needs
MicroSave Briefing Note #46: Catalysing Capacity Development - Assessing the Need for Training (2006)
Is there an urgent need for systematic approach to large-scale capacity building in the Indian microfinance sector?
Understanding and Assessing the Demand for Microfinance (2005)
The nature and drivers of demand for financial services in the low-income market.
Designing Innovative Products, Processes and Channels for the Promotion of Microfinance (2005)
A guide for devising new products for the low income segment
Cash, Children or Kind? Developing Security for Low-Income People in Old Age in Africa (2005)
Tackling the old age security issue in Africa
Equity Building Society’s Market-led Approach to Microfinance (2004)
How can market-led approaches transform an insolvent microfinance institution?
The Relative Risks to the Savings of Poor People (2001)
Is it possible to protect poor people from savings’ risk?
Designing Savings Services for the Poor (2003)
Savings services – Balancing needs of the saver and those of the institution
BURO, Tangail's Approach to Product Development: A Case Study (2001)
What is the secret of BURO’s success in product development?
Are you Poor Enough?: Client Selection by Microfinance Institutions (2001)
Should the ‘non-poor’ be included in MFI programs to cross-subsidize outreach to the poor?
Lessons from MicroSave’s Action Research Programme (2003) (2003)
What are the appropriate preparations for and responses to market-led growth?
Savings and the Poor: The Methods, Use and Impact of Savings by the Poor of East Africa (1999)
What “Savings Practices” do the poor adopt?
Lessons from Pilot Testing Financial Services: The Experience of MicroSave (2003)
The “how” and “why” of pilot-testing financial services and products
Market Research and Client-Responsive Product Development (2004)
How can market research help in responding to the needs of microfinance clients?
Strategic Marketing for Microfinance Institutions (2003)
Strategic marketing - Key to client-responsive and market-led approach to microfinance
Drop-outs and Graduates: Lessons from Bangladesh (1997)
How can microfinance institutions check client drop-outs?
Client Drop-outs From East African Microfinance Institutions (1999)
Why do so many clients drop-out from East African microfinance institutions?
MicroSave Toolkit: Strategic Marketing for MicroFinance Institutions (2005)
How to understand clients’ needs and adopt MFIs’ operations to achieve greater sustainability?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 1: Why Bother with Product Development?...And Where to Get Help! (2001)
Does microfinance require market research?
Lessons from MicroSave's Action Research Programme (2002) (2003)
What has MicroSave learnt from its Action Research Programme with its partners?
Lessons from MicroSave's Action Research Programme (2001) (2002)
What has been the progress made by MicroSave under its action research program in 2001?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 8: Dropouts and Graduates: What Do They Mean For MFIs? (2001)
What should MFIs do to retain clients?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 3: Mobilising Savings (2001)
What do MFIs need to remember before starting large scale savings mobilization?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 12: Two Perspectives on Savings Services (2000)
Savings services from the perspectives of the Saver and the MFI
MicroSave Briefing Note # 10: Lessons from MicroSave’s Action Research Programme 2001 (2002)
What has MicroSave learnt about product development processes?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 14: The Systematic Product Development Process (2002)
What is the systematic approach to product development?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 9: Key Questions That Should Precede New Product Development (2001)
What are the issues that need to be addressed before starting product development?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 27: Corporate Branding and Identity – Why They Are Important For MFIs (2002)
How to build the MFI brand?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 28: Customer Service – Why It Is Important For MFIs (2004)
Why should microfinance institutions offer good customer services?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 32: Beyond the Classroom: MicroSave’s Training Philosophy and Strategy (2004)
How does MicroSave impart trainings to MFIs?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 2: Introducing Savings into a MicroCredit Institution - Lessons from ASA (2001)
MicroSave Briefing Note # 2: Do microfinance institutions need more flexible systems and broader client base?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 30: Lessons from MicroSave’s Action Research Programme (2003) (2004)
What should be the approach for market-led research?
The Competitive Environment in Uganda: Implications for Microfinance Institutions and their Clients (2003)
Can competition benefit microfinance in Uganda?
Focus Group Discussions and Participatory Rapid Appraisal for Microfinance: A Toolkit/Course (1999)
New methodologies for microfinance
The Case for Voluntary, Open Access Savings Facilities and Why Bangladesh's Largest MFIs Were Slow to React (1999)
Are the poor saving and do they want to save?
Beyond Basic Credit and Savings: Developing New Financial Service Products for the Poor (1997)
How can a microfinance institution (MFI) carve out a niche in a competitive microfinance market?
The Impact of Microfinance Services: Increasing Income or Reducing Poverty? (1999)
Should we focus on increasing incomes or reducing poverty?
Microfinance Systems: Designing Quality Financial Services for the Poor (2000)
What are key issues in micro-finance and how can solutions be adapted from and to local experience?
Drop-Outs Amongst Ugandan MFIs (1999)
Why are microfinance institutions in Uganda suffering high levels of drop-out and how can this be addressed?
Savings and the Poor - The Methods, Use and Impact of Savings by the Poor (1999)
How do the poor of East Africa manage their money and can microfinance institutions help them do better?
Use and Impact of Savings Services Among the Poor in Uganda (1999)
Moving on from 'the poor cannot save' to 'how can institutions help them save more'
Moving The Mountains: Savings As A Human Right In Bangladesh (1998)
Recognising the needs of the poor in the provision of appropriate savings facilities
Necessity as the Mother of Invention: How Poor People Protect Themselves Against Risk (1999)
How do poor protect themselves against risks?
Two Sides of a Coin? Market and Impact Research (2000)
Can market and impact research be combined?
A Critical Review of Savings Services in Africa and Elsewhere (1999)
Can financial services meet the savings needs of the poor?
Vulnerability, Risks, Assets and Empowerment - The Impact of Microfinance on Poverty Alleviation (1999)
Do financial services help the poor cope with risk and reduce their vulnerability?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 7: Are You Poor Enough? Client Selection by Microfinance Institutions (2001)
Can you include the vulnerable non-poor in microfinance clientele?
It Is Expensive to Be Poor: Losses Suffered by People Saving in Uganda (2002)
Should user-owned and managed microfinance institutions be closed?
Financial Services Associations in Uganda: A Mid-term Review (2000)
Can financial services associations of Uganda provide effective financial services to the rural poor?
Costing and Pricing of Financial Services - A Toolkit (2004)
How can microfinance institutions "full cost" their products?
Tooolkit for Planning, Conducting and Monitoring Pilot Tests - Loan Products (2001)
The ultimate accessory fot pilot testing
Savings Are a Human Right (And Good Business too): The Case for Voluntary, Open Access Savings Facilities (1997)
Can poor save?
Savings in Africa: Remembering the Forgotten Half of Microfinance (2002)
Why can't the poor save?
ASA's Culture, Competition and Choice: Introducing Savings Services into a MicroCredit Institution (2001)
Do microfinance institutions need more flexible systems and broader client base?
Savings: Flexible Financial Services for the Poor (1997)
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Drop-outs, Graduates, Defaulters and the Excluded (2000)
How do microfinance institutions (MFIs) cope with client drop-outs, client graduation to formal banking institutions, client defaults and exclusion?
Principles and Practice: Myths of Regulation and Supervision (2000)
Options available for regulating and supervising micro finance institutions and various such methods for different types of institutions
Replication: Regressive Reproduction or Progressive Evolution? (1998)
Replicating microfinance programs successfully requires careful research of client needs
MicroSave Briefing Note # 6: The Relative Risks to the Savings of Poor People (2001)
Can more information and better accountability help protect poor people's savings?
Market Research for MicroFinance - Letting Demand Drive Product Development (1999)
What is the future challenge for MFI operators?
Looking Before You Leap: Key Questions That Should Precede Starting New Product Development (2001)
Can product development make microfinance institutions more client-driven?
MicroSave Briefing Note # 22: Strategic Marketing for MicroFinance Institutions (2003)
Framework for microfinance institutions to improve their market-orientation through strategic marketing
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