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Publications & Presentations
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Here are some new publications and presentations.
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- The Enabling Environment for Mobile Banking in Africa
- Banking and the Last Mile
- Year of Microcredit Blue Book Conference
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UN Association of Greater Boston
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“The Access Frontier”
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“Private Development Banking: Managing the Tensions”
Books/Booklets
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Making Financial Markets Work for the Poor
by David Porteous, FinMark Trust 2005
This brochure summarizes the experience of FinMark Trust in what it means to seek to make financial markets work better for the poor, as well as advancing the conceptual framework of ‘making markets work for the poor’
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Banking on Change:
Democratizing Finance in South Africa 1994-2004 and beyond
By David Porteous with Ethel Hazelhurst, DoubleStorey 2004
This book records ten years of developments in access to financial services in South Africa 1994-2004, addressing sectors like microfinance, transaction banking insurance, housing finance and SMME finance. It also catalogues some of the innovative institutions which arose during this era of great change and experimentation.
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The Geography of Finance
By David Porteous, Aldgate UK, 1995 (based on PhD dissertation).
This book is based on David Porteous’ PhD dissertation (Yale 1993) and contains theoretical work, as well as empirical chapters, on the effect of geography on financial services, and vice versa.
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Chapters in Books
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Chapter in Building Inclusive Financial Systems
edited by Barr, Kumar and Litan
(Brookings 2007)
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Chapter in Business Solutions for the Global Poor
edited by Rangan, Quelch, Herrero and Barton
(Wiley, 2006)
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“SA Housing Finance: The Old is Dead; Is the New Ready to be Born?”
D. Porteous and K. Naicker, in Housing Policy in Post Apartheid South Africa, Ed. F. Khan and P. Thring, Heinemann, 2003.
This chapter covers the changes in SA affordable housing finance during the 1990’s |
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“A Tale of Two Cities”
By D. Porteous in R, Martin (Ed) Money and the Space Economy, John Wiley and sons
This chapter is based on a chapter from the book Geography of Finance, and chronicles the rise and fall of two sets of city pairs—Melbourne and Sydney; Montreal and Toronto—as national financial centres.
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Published Papers
“Scoping Report on the Payment of Social Transfers through the Financial System”
Commissioned by DFID, 2006
Read the full report in PDF 
The Enabling Environment for Mobile Banking in Africa
released 31 May 2006.
Read the Exec Summary in PDF
Read the full report in PDF
“CGAP Focus Note No.33,
“When does competition cause interest rates to decline?”
http://www.cgap.org/docs/FocusNote_33.pdf “Setting the Context: South Africa” in Housing Finance International
Vol.XX No.1 September 2005 With Jennifer Isern, Raul Hernandez-Coss and Chinyere Egwuagu,
“AML/CFT Regulation: Implications for Financial Service Providers that Serve Low Income People”,
CGAP Focus Note No.29, July 2005
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With Jennifer Isern, “Commercial Banks and Microfinance: Evolving Models of Success”,
CGAP Focus Note No.28, June 2005
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“The landscape of access to financial services in SA”,
Labour Markets and Social Frontiers, No.3, April 2003, SARB
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“Coming Second? Secondary Market Development in Emerging Economies—A Case Study of South Africa”,
Housing Finance International September 2000.
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Recent presentations
Banking and the Last Mile World Bank/Brookings Conference May 2006 Read the PDF
Year of Microcredit Blue Book Conference,
Geneva May 2005
Read the PDF
UN Association of Greater Boston,
Kennedy School, May 2005
African Microfinance Conference, August 2005  View a PowerPoint presentation
Working papers (unpublished)
“The Access Frontier”,
working paper prepared for DFID May 2005
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“Private Development Banking: Managing the Tensions”,
paper presented at Harvard Business School conference on Business and Poverty,
December 2005 View a PowerPoint presentation
 
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