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.

About the Author
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).


Book Information
ISBN 9781403997890
Author Gianfranco A. Vento
Format Hardback
Page Count 175
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave USA