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Microfinance poverty assessment tool /
The Microfinance Poverty Assessment Tool was developed as a much-needed tool to increase transparency on the depth of outreach of microfinance institutions (MFIs). It is intended to assist donors and investors to integrate a poverty focus into their appraisals and funding of financial institutions t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Technical tool series ;
no. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- PART I: OVERVIEW
- Chapter 1 Poverty Assessment of Microfinance Institutions
- Intended users
- Manual layout
- Study parameters and choice of an indicator-based methodology
- Methodological steps
- Multiple dimensions of poverty and their implications
- Development of a generic questionnaire
- Selection criteria for indicators
- Purpose of field testing
- Indicators chosen for questionnaire
- Methodology overview
- Using principal component analysis to develop the poverty index
- Using the poverty index.
- Relative versus absolute poverty
- Interpreting results
- Selected results of test case studies
- Overall comparative results
- Summary
- PART II: PLANNING AND ORGANIZING THE ASSESSMENT
- Chapter 2 Planning and Organizing the Assessment
- Guidelines for contracting the assessment
- Responsibilities of the researcher
- Sequencing project payments
- Determining the required time frame
- Allocating the poverty assessment budget
- Personnel, logisitical, and performance issues affecting field implementation
- PART III: COLLECTING SURVEY DATA
- Chapter 3 Developing the Sample Design.
- Step 1: Define the population and sampling unit
- Household as the basic sampling unit
- Determining a feasible survey area
- Step 2: Construct the MFI-based sampling frame
- Cluster sampling for new MFI clients
- Determining required clustering stages
- Step 3: Determine appropriate sample size
- Step 4: Distribute the samples proportionally
- Probability-proportionate-to-size sampling (PPS)
- Equal-proportion sampling (EPS)
- EPS method applied to client groups
- Step 5: Select the actual sample
- Random sampling within clusters.
- Random sampling of nonclient households: The random walk
- Describing each survey site
- Chapter 4 Adapting the Poverty Assessment Questionnaire to the Local Setting
- Identifying local definitions of poverty
- Introducing the study and screening households
- How to introduce the study
- Screening households for applicability
- Type of respondent and preferred interview venue
- The survey form
- Section A: Documenting households through identification information
- Section B: Family structure
- Section C: Food-related indicators
- Section D: Dwelling-related indicators.
- Section E: Other asset-based indicators
- Customizing the questionnaire
- Guidelines for writing well-worded questions
- Pre-coding the questionnaire
- Chapter 5 Training the Field Survey Team
- Stage 1: Summarize the background, purpose, and metholodogy of the survey
- Discuss the purpose of the study
- Discuss the sampling frame used for identifying households
- Present the field implementation plan
- Define role of the interviewer and review principles of good interviewing
- Discuss major sources of error in the field and how to correct for these errors.