Microfinance Keywords

The objective of this page is to present a series of keywords that illustrate the wide range of topics, issues, specialities et al. that are related to the all-encompasing word, "microfinance" It also illustrates the sweeping importance that is being attributed to the microfinance as a whole. This can, in no way, claim to be exhaustive, but 80 keywords are listed below, in alphabetical order.

The list was prepared to assist searching the internet, library collections or journal article research. In order to avoid being overwhelmed by internet search results, use several keywords in combination, so as to narrow down your search and obtain more specific search results.


accounting
action research
bank, banks, banker, banking
borrowers
bridge funds
CBO
chit funds
community
community banking
community development
community economic development
cooperative
credit
credit association
credit unions
debt
defaluters
delinuency
development
diffusion
economic
empowerment
enterpreneurship
environment
facilitation
finance
financial auditing
financial indicators
financial performance
financial rating
gender
grameen methodology
group loans
guarantee funds
home-based enterprise
income generation
informal
information
insurance, microinsurance
interest rates
intermediaries
investment funds
legislation
lenders
LETS
local government
microbanking
microcredit
microenterprises
microfinance
microleasing
microlending
monetary
money lenders
money lenders
mutual funds
NGO
participation
pawn brokers
peer pressure
performance standards
policies and programmes
poverty
PVO
regulation
replication
ROSCAs
rural
rural
savings
self-employed
self-help
self-help groups
small and medium enterprises (SME)
small business
solidarity
sustainable, sustainability
transaction
urban
village, village banks
women
Do you have any keywords to add to the above list?
Please send them to: Hari Srinivas - hsrinivas@gdrc.org

Also see elsewhere in the Virtual Library on Microcredit:


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