Defying the odds : banking for the poor
by
 
Versluysen, Eugene.

Title
Defying the odds : banking for the poor

Author
Versluysen, Eugene.

ISBN
9781565490949
 
9781565490932

Personal Author
Versluysen, Eugene.

Publication Information
West Hartford, Conn. : Kumarian Press, 1999.

Physical Description
xiii, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents
Pt. I. The Political Economy of Microfinance. 1. Poverty Is Not Created by the Poor. 2. Self-Employment: A Cure for Poverty? 3. Banking for the Unbankable -- Pt. II. The Asian Pioneers of Microfinance. 4. Challenging Social Norms to Empower the Landless Poor in Bangladesh. 5. Bold Experiments with Unit Banking in Indonesia -- Pt. III. Informality and Microfinance in Latin America. 6. Coping with the Lost Decade. 7. Financing Bolivia's Urban Informal Sector. 8. Rising Informality and Microfinance in Peru -- Pt. IV. Experimenting with Microfinance in West Africa. 9. West Africa: A Region Mired in Poverty. 10. Blending Microfinance with Training: Lessons from Guinea -- Pt. V. Microfinance in Perspective. 11. Learning from Microfinance.

Subject Term
Banks and banking -- Developing countries.
 
Credit -- Developing countries.
 
Small business -- Developing countries -- Finance.
 
Poor -- Developing countries.
 
Economic development.


LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberCopy
IIEMSAGeneral Books33168015722396332.1091724 V563D 19991