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Microfinance

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Mario Torre

    1. University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy

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  2. Gianfranco A. Vento

    1. University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. A New Conception of Microfinance

    • Mario La Torre
    Pages 1-19

  3. Products and Services in Modern Microfinance

    • Silvia Trezza
    Pages 20-37

  4. The Main Features of Microcredit

    • Gianfranco Vento
    Pages 38-53

  5. Sustainability and Outreach: the Goals of Microfinance

    • Gianfranco Vento
    Pages 54-70

  6. Risk Management in Microfinance

    • Mario La Torre
    Pages 71-92

  7. Monitoring the Microfinance Processes

    • Monica Ortolani
    Pages 93-111

  8. Microfinance Performance

    • Marco Tutino
    Pages 112-131

  9. The Role of Regulation

    • Gianfranco Vento
    Pages 132-150

  10. The Road Ahead: A Platform for Microfinance

    • Mario La Torre
    Pages 151-157

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 158-175
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Microfinance is a comprehensive analysis of the operational, managerial and financial aspects of microfinance. The text provides a contemporary analysis of microfinance business covering the risks, returns and management issues associated with such activity. It analyzes the main products and services available in modern microfinance and explains how to manage the financial and non financial risks involved. The book also provides a performance and monitoring model for microfinance programmes and describes how microfinance can be regulated.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy

    Mario Torre, Gianfranco A. Vento

About the authors

MARIO LA TORRE is currently Full Professor in Banking and Finance and Director of the MA course in Film Art Management at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy. His publications include Securitisation and Banks, Postbank in Italy and Mergers & Acquisitions in Banking. Recent articles concerning microfinance include Modern Microfinance: The Role of Banks and Ethical Finance and Microfinance.

GIANFRANCO A. VENTO is a Post-doctoral Scholar in Microfinance at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy. He was previously an analyst in the Banking Supervision Department at The Bank of Italy, and was Visiting Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. His main research interest relates to the money market and microfinance. He has been published by leading Italian academic journals and has followed several microfinance projects in developing countries for an Italian NGO. He is the author of Interbank Market and Eurosystem (Giappichelli, 2005).

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