Microcredit as a response to a wicked problem responsibility for wicked problems -- Institutional study of microcredit : successes and failures -- Innovations to make microcredit a more powerful tool -- Other micro products and services to attack the problem -- Concluding remarks on motivation...

Microfinance, the provision of financial services to poor people, suffers from high interest rates owing to high transaction costs. Within these transaction costs, technologies such as MIS may be a solution to lower operating costs. However, the small size of most MFIs makes software seem...