Savings services for the poor
Subtitle: an operational guide
By: edited by Madeline Hirschland.
Contributors: Hirschland, Madeline.
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bloomfield, CT
Language: eng
Subjects: Savings accounts.; Saving and investment.; Savings banks.; Banks and banking.; Bank management.; Microfinance.; Poor.
Description: "Contains practical guidance for managing sounds savings operations for small and rural depositors. The book addresses two types of institutions: microfinance institutions and mainstream banks"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Why do the poor need savings services? : what they get and what they might like / Stuart Rutherford; title: Prerequisites for intermediating savings / Katharine McKee; title: The keys to cost recovery / David C. Richardson and Madeline Hirschland; title: Developing or strengthening savings operations : what's involved / Mohammed Azim Hossain ... [et al.]; title: Managing to go "down market" : mainstream financial institutions and the move into microsavings / Robert Peck Christen, N. Srinivasan, and Rodger Voorhies; title: Developing products based on market research / Graham A.N. Wright; title: Savings products / Madeline Hirschland; title: Beyond full-service branches : other delivery options / Madeline Hirschland; title: Pricing / Madeline Hirschland and John Owens; title: Promotion : the final step in marketing / Hayder Al-Bagdadi and David Cracknell; title: Maintaining the security of client funds / Monnie Markel Biety; title: Liquidity management / Monnie Markel Biety; title: Managing interest rate risk : asset liability management / Monnie Markel Biety; title: Product costing / Brigit Helms and Lorna Grace; title: Financial incentive schemes for staff engaged in savings mobilization / Martin Holtmann and Mattias Grammling.