Access for All or Beyond Teams

Access for All: Building Inclusive Financial Services

Author: Brigit Helms

"Access for All: Building Inclusive Financial Systems outlines the "new" vision of microfinance, laying out in plain language what CGAP and others in the development field have learned over the past 10 years about building inclusive financial systems. Access for All is neither a technical handbook nor a chronicle of the history of microfinance. Instead, it pulls together disparate sources of information to describe where the microfinance field finds itself in 2006, as well as the opportunities and challenges ahead." "Access for All will enable readers to quickly grasp the practical implications of a fairly murky concept - inclusive financial systems - by making a cogent argument about what we know now, what we need to find out, and where further information can be found." Beginning with key questions about clients of microfinance - Who are they? What financial services do they want? What is the impact of financial services on their lives? - the book examines all levels of the financial system. It shows what works, what does not work, and where more learning is needed. By focusing on promising models and practices, it offers a vision of how to achieve financial systems that will ultimately offer access for all.

Table of Contents:

	The consultative group to assist the poor
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
Ch. 2	Poor and low-income clients	17
Ch. 3	Financial service providers : the micro level	35
Ch. 4	Financial infrastructure : the meso level	59
Ch. 5	Governments : the macro level	75
Ch. 6	Funders	93
Ch. 7	Cross-cutting challenges	113
Ch. 8	Conclusion	139

See also: The Ultimate Job Hunters Guidebook 5e or World of Fairs

Beyond Teams: Building the Collaborative Organization

Author: Michael M Beyerlein

"Finally, a book that goes beyond the 'how-to' of team building and answers the critical question, 'How do I create a collaborative organization that reaps the harvest of long-term investment in teams?' The 'ten principles of collaborative organizations' outlined in this book are invaluable."
— Seth McCutcheon, CEO, Domicile Design Group LLC

The flagship book for the new Collaborative Work Systems Series, Beyond Teams provides an overview of this growing field, defines the basic principles, and points the direction toward a series of books. You'll find a framework designed to help you understand the potential and the means of achieving it throughout the key functions of business.