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2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

6. Microfintech Applications

Author : Roberto Moro-Visconti

Published in: MicroFinTech

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Abstract

This chapter analyzes MicroFinTech applications after the microfinance background, examined in Chapter 2, the microfinance issues, illustrated in Chapter 3, and the impact of technology (discussed in Chapter 4) and FinTechs (illustrated in Chapter 5). Technology-driven sustainability boosts scalability and outreach. Crowdfunded resources can back microfinance projects, as shown by well-known templates like Kiva.

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Footnotes
1
See ASHTA (2018).
 
2
Saksonova and Kuzmina-Merlino (2017) and Sinha et al. (2018).
 
3
See Benami and Carter (2021).
 
4
Hussain (2017).
 
5
See Palanivelu and Narmada (2020).
 
6
See Macchiavello (2017).
 
7
See Chauvin Alarcon (2011).
 
8
Source: Global Envision, Microfinance Goes Mobile, http://​www.​globalenvision.​org/​library/​4/​1708/​.
 
10
See, for instance, IAS 7 for an International accounting standard.
 
11
See Garcia-Perez et al. (2020).
 
12
https://web.archive.org/web/20170708185027/https://thegiin.org/assets/GIIN_AnnualImpactInvestorSurvey_2017_Web_Final.pdf.
 
14
Younas and Kalimuthu (2021).
 
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Metadata
Title
Microfintech Applications
Author
Roberto Moro-Visconti
Copyright Year
2021
Book
MicroFinTech

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-80393-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-80394-0

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80394-0_6