Submission and review of papers
The conference will include the papers in track for the special issue of journal partners of ITEM 4 as well as other work in progress for future publications in this or other journals. Presenters at the conference would be notified if their work could be of interest to any journal indicated below.
The submission deadline is October 1st, 2012. Papers for the conference will be reviewed anonymously and authors will be notified of the decision by January 1st, 2013. Papers have to be sent to: [email protected]
The submission deadline is October 1st, 2012. Papers for the conference will be reviewed anonymously and authors will be notified of the decision by January 1st, 2013. Papers have to be sent to: [email protected]
Recommended topics
Examples of subjects in the streams include, but are not limited to:
Cost Management in Microfinance
· Transaction Costs in microfinance
· Social Costs of microfinance
· Operational Cost Management in microfinance
· Strategic Cost Management in microfinance
· Innovation and cost management in microfinance
· The use of technology to reduce microfinance costs
- MIS (SaaS , cloud computing)
- Online financing
- Mobile banking
Performance Management in Microfinance
· Economic performance and the need for financial sustainability
· Social Performance of Microfinance institutions
· Difficulties of double bottom line measures for microfinance
· Conceptualizations in total performance or global performance for microfinance
· Co-creation and the need for alliances to improve the performance of microfinance
Microfinance between State and Market
· Impact of public policies on development of microfinance
· Public tools for financial inclusion
· Impact of private initiatives on development of microfinance
· Private tools for financial inclusion
· Issue of regulation on microfinance actors
- Special regulation vs lack of regulation of the microfinance sector
- Special regulation of social and solidarity economic sector
- Outreach of regulation
· Microfinance: core of the social mission of economic actors
· Welfarist and institutional approaches of microfinance
Microfinance as a tool of inequalities alleviation
· Empowerment of women through microfinance
· Development of Social Business
· Professional microcredit vs personal microcredit
· Can microfinance remain a social tool while becoming capitalistic?
· Microfinance as a tool for social cohesion
· UN International Year of Water Cooperation
Cost Management in Microfinance
· Transaction Costs in microfinance
· Social Costs of microfinance
· Operational Cost Management in microfinance
· Strategic Cost Management in microfinance
· Innovation and cost management in microfinance
· The use of technology to reduce microfinance costs
- MIS (SaaS , cloud computing)
- Online financing
- Mobile banking
Performance Management in Microfinance
· Economic performance and the need for financial sustainability
· Social Performance of Microfinance institutions
· Difficulties of double bottom line measures for microfinance
· Conceptualizations in total performance or global performance for microfinance
· Co-creation and the need for alliances to improve the performance of microfinance
Microfinance between State and Market
· Impact of public policies on development of microfinance
· Public tools for financial inclusion
· Impact of private initiatives on development of microfinance
· Private tools for financial inclusion
· Issue of regulation on microfinance actors
- Special regulation vs lack of regulation of the microfinance sector
- Special regulation of social and solidarity economic sector
- Outreach of regulation
· Microfinance: core of the social mission of economic actors
· Welfarist and institutional approaches of microfinance
Microfinance as a tool of inequalities alleviation
· Empowerment of women through microfinance
· Development of Social Business
· Professional microcredit vs personal microcredit
· Can microfinance remain a social tool while becoming capitalistic?
· Microfinance as a tool for social cohesion
· UN International Year of Water Cooperation