‘Micro’financial services: what do Pacific people need?

  There are many elements in the economic and socio‐cultural context of the Pacic region which distinguish it from Asia where many of the most famous models for the delivery of ‘micro’nancial services were developed. Is it possible that the rush to replicate existing models, using ‘best practice’ principles developed far from the Pacic, is curtailing careful market analysis and stiing experimentation and innovation in the provision of nancial services for the poor? This conference report asks readers to consider the types of ‘micro’nancial services and the methods of their delivery which may be appropriate in the Pacic context, and more important, which meet the needs of people in the Pacic.