Books (alphabetized)

[1] Conroy, J.D., 2000, ‘Chapter Eight: Papua New Guinea’. The Role of Central Banks in Microfinance in Asia and the Pacific: Vol. 2, Country Studies. This chapter examines the financial environment of Papua New Guinea and the problems involved in developing a sustainable microfinance industry which is able to reach people in regional and rural areas. While there is a demand for microfinance, and especially for savings facilities in Papua New Guinea, low population densities and high cost structures make it very difficult for institutions to achieve the goal of sustainability.

[2] Conroy, J.D., Taylor, K.W., and G B Thapa, G.B., 1995. ‘Best Practice of Banking with the Poor’. This book sets out recommendations of what different banking organisations and institutions should do in order to get the poor to effectively engage in the banking industry.

[3] Goodwin-Groen, R., 1998, ‘The Role of Commercial Banks in Microfinance: Asia Pacific Region’. This book looks at the barriers involved in getting commercial banks to view microfinance as profitable business. The majority of commercial bankers perceive microfinance as risky, unprofitable and not fitting with their core business. This article looks at ways microfinance can be encouraged to become a profitable part of commercial banks business.

 [4] G B Thapa, G.B., Chalmers, J., Taylo. r, K.W., and Conroy, J.D., 1992, ‘Banking with the Poor’. This paper looks at the development of the Banking with the Poor program. Banking with the Poor is an attempt to explore, demonstrate and publicise the scope for increased access to credit for the poor on a sound commercial basis

[5] McGuire, P.B., 2000, ‘Chapter 11: Vanuatu’, The Role of Central Banks in Microfinance in Asia and the Pacific: Vol. 2, Country Studies. This chapter examines the financial environment of Vanuatu in relation to microfinance and the role the central bank plays in this. The financial system is relatively simple in Vanuatu, consisting of only one microfinance program of any significance. The Reserve Bank of Vanuatu is likewise a small institution with limited resources. It does not see its functions as extending to microfinance, and has appropriately avoided 'developmental' activities. This chapter concludes by recommending that the reserve bank provides leadership and technical support to microfinance in Vanuatu.

Monographs (alphabetized)

[1] Foundation for Development Cooperation, 1996, ‘Banking with the Poor in the South Pacific’. This report contains three documents from the Third Asia-Pacific Regional workshop on Banking with the Poor, held in Brisbane in November 1994. One document summaries South Pacific consultations with the poor. The second is a background paper on Banking with the Poor in the Pacific. The final paper is a statement by South Pacific participants in the Third Regional workshop.

[2] Marino, P., 2003, ‘Five Years On: The Microcredit Summit Campaign and the Development of Microfinance in Asia and the Pacific', This paper examines the development of the Microcredit Summit Campaign (MCS) over the last five years, using development in Asia and the Pacific as a field of study.

[3] McGuire, P.B., 1997. ‘Microfinance in the Pacific Island Countries’. This report was originally prepared for the Asian and Pacific Development Centre Regional Workshop on Microfinance for the Poor in the Asia-Pacific (BANK POOR  96), held in Kuala Lumpur from 10-12 December 1996. It provides an assessment of microfinance in the Pacific island countries (PICs). It is based partly on an overall review of microfinance in nine countries in the region, namely Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Western Samoa.