New World of Microenterprise Finance
Building healthy financial institutions for the poor
This book argues that it is possible to create sustainable and viable financial institutions that give poor people greater access to financial services. Includes case studies of successful programmes from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Published: 1994
Pages: 320
Paperback: 9781853392474
| Foreword, Mary Houghton / vii | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgments I ix | |||
| Contributors / xi | |||
| Abbreviations / xv | |||
| Introduction / 1 | |||
| Part I Principles and Institutions for Microenterprise Finance / 9 | |||
| 1 Financial Services for Microenterprises: Principles and Institutions / l l | |||
| Elisabeth Rhyne and Maria Otero | |||
| 2 Savings Mobilization and Microenterprise Finance: The Indonesian | |||
| Experience / 27 | |||
| Marguerite S. Robinson | |||
| 3 Principles of Regulation and Prudential Supervision and Their | |||
| Relevance for Microenterprise Finance Organizations / 55 | |||
| Rodrigo A. Chaves and Claudio Gonzalez-Vega | |||
| 4 The Process of Institutional Development: Assisting Small Enterprise | |||
| Institutions Become More Effective / 76 | |||
| Elaine L. Edgcomb and James Cawley | |||
| 5 The Evolution of Nongovernmental Organizations Toward Financial | |||
| Intermediation / 94 | |||
| Maria Otero | |||
| 6 A New View of Finance Program Evaluation / 105 | |||
| Elisabeth Rhyne | |||
| Part II Methodologies for Microenterprise Finance / 117 | |||
| 7 The Solidarity Group Experience Worldwide / 119 | |||
| Shari Berenbach and Diego Guzmayi | |||
| 8 Credit Unions: A Formal-Sector Alternative for Financing | |||
| Microenterprise Development / 140 | |||
| John H. Magill | |||
| 9 The Village Bank Methodology: Performance and Prospects / 156 | |||
| Sharon L. Holt | |||
| 10 Transformation Lending: Helping Microenterprises Become Small | |||
| Businesses / 185 | |||
| Larry R. Reed and David R. Befus | |||
| vi THE NEW WORLD OF MICROENTERPRISE FINANCE | |||
| Part III A Closer Look at Successful Microenterprise Finance | |||
| Experiences / 205 | |||
| 11 Bank Rakyat Indonesia's Unit Desa System: Achievements and | |||
| Replicability / 206 | |||
| James J. Boomgard and Kenneth }. Angell | |||
| 12 The Creation of BancoSol in Bolivia / 229 | |||
| Amy ]. Glosser | |||
| 13 The Association of Solidarity Groups of Colombia. Governance and | |||
| Services / 251 | |||
| Arelis G6mez Alfonso with Nan Borton and Carlos Castello | |||
| 14 The Juhudi Credit Scheme: From a Traditional Integrated Method to | |||
| a Financial Systems Approach / 268 | |||
| Albert Kimanthi Mutua | |||
| Bibliography / 277 | |||
| Index I 295 |
Maria Otero Maria Otero is the associate director of ACCION International, a U.S based organization specializing in microenterprise development.
Elizabeth Rhyne Elizabeth Rhyne is an independent consultant specializing in small and microenterprise development and finance. She is the author or coauthor of books on the U.S Small Business Administration and on government credit policy.
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