Defying the odds : banking for the poor

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Title:

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.

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Summary

A seminal and ground breaking study--especially commended to the attention of the students of International Economics, and it] will be of immense interest to non-specialist general readers with an interest in the welfare and improvement of third world country economics and societies. --The Midwest Book Review, July 2004 *Draws from the experience of selected creative microfinance programs in Asia, West Africa, and Latin America *Unique view of microfinance from a political-economy perspective Setting itself apart from other microfinance literature, this distinctive book focuses on the context of social and economic change in developing countries, claiming the poor do not create poverty. The book's focus on grassroots developmental entrepreneurship and alternative poverty-reduction strategies will be of interest to policymakers as well as students who are learning how microfinance has grown worldwide.