Online Resources
Grameen Bank, Data & Reports
http://www.grameen-info.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=346&Itemid=416
Liam Collins, Richard Swart & Bryan Zhang, The Rise of Future Finance: The UK Alternative Finance Benchmarking Report (Dec. 2013),http://www.funginstitute.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/Rise_of_Future_Finance_1_1.pdf.
Abstract (by authors): Alternative finance activities such as crowdfunding, peer–to–peer lending and invoice trading have emerged as a significant funding mechanism and source of capital in the UK in recent years. Meeting the capital needs of both individuals and businesses, facilitating fundraising activities for civic projects and social causes, alternative finance intermediaries have become online market places where individuals, rather than institutions, work collaboratively to form capital. As the alternative finance market continues to grow in the UK and the government looks to regulate the area, this benchmarking report offers a timely snapshot of this fledgling and dynamic sector in order to understand its size, growth and the fluid development of respective segments. In turn, this report aims to inform regulators, brief policymakers, update industrial leaders and educate the wider public about this growing and important industry.
This benchmarking research is a joint project between Nesta, the University of Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley. It represents the first intensive, comprehensive and empirical country–level study of an alternative finance market anywhere in the world. Primary data gathering was facilitated by a questionnaire–based survey, which was able to capture more than 95 per cent of all UK–based alternative finance activities such as crowdfunding, peer–to–peer lending and invoice trading. Data on more than 50 alternative finance intermediaries was obtained, including from almost all members of the United Kingdom Crowdfunding Association(UKCFA) and the Peer–to–Peer Finance Association (P2PFA).
infoDev, Crowdfunding’s Potential for the Developing World (2013),http://www.funginstitute.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/Crowdfundings_Potential_for_the_Developing_World.pdf.
Joyce A. Klein, Ilgar Alisultanov and Amy Kays Blair, Microenterprise as a Welfare to Work Strategy: Two-Year Findings, Res. Rep. No. 3,Microenterprise Fund for Innovation (2003).
www.fieldus.org/publications/WTWRpt3.pdf
Elaine L. Edgcombe & Joyce A. Klein, Opening Opportunities, Building Ownership: Fulfilling the Promise of Microenterprise in the United States(2005).
http://fieldus.org/publications/FulfillingthePromise.pdf
Dan Marom, Alicia Robb & Orly Sade, Gender Dynamics in Crowdfunding: Evidence on Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Deals from Kickstarter, Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, UC Berkeley College of Engineering (Oct. 16, 2013),http://www.funginstitute.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/Gender%20Dynamics%20in%20Crowdfunding.pdf.