Documents
This website is intended as a resource for those parliamentarians and other stakeholders interested in learning more about microfinance. This page will be regularly updated with recommended sources of further information. For recommendations of documents to include in this section please contact the APPG Co-ordinator here.
- Call for Evidence on the Regulation of Microfinance [August 2012]
- 'Helping or hurting: what role for microfinance in the fight against poverty?', APPG on Microfinance inquiry report 2011. Available as summary report (8 pages) and full report (60 pages)
- Measuring the impact of microfinance: taking another look (Grameen Foundation, 2010)
- Social impact study: listening to the voices of women and children in Malawi (Microloan Foundation, 2009)
- Bringing financial services to Africa's poor (Care International, 2009)
- Microcredit Summit Campaign report 2009
- Measuring access to financial services in the world (CGAP, 2009)
- Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day (Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven, 2009)
- What's wrong with microfinance? (Edited by Thomas Dichter & Malcolm Harper, 2007)
- Protecting the poor: a microinsurance compendium (International Labour Organization, 2006)
- Banker to the Poor (Muhammad Yunus, 2003)