Mainstreaming Microfinance: How Lending to the Poor Began, Grew, and Came of Age in BoliviaKumarian Press, 2001 - 242 من الصفحات * Tells the success story of how microfinance in Latin America lifted whole populations into the financial mainstream * Offers a non-technical, in-depth analysis of the microlending debate Some people tout microfinance as the most important tool now available for fighting poverty while still others doubt its contribution to the "truly" poor. This volume offers a reasoned, moderate voice on the virtues and problems of microfinance. Drawing on the success story of Bolivia, Rhyne traces the transformation of NGOs into formal financial institutions, and examines microfinance under the conditions of commercialization and competition that have altered the dynamics of the new industry. Using participant interviews, Beth Rhyne details how Bolivia’s special breed of social entrepreneurs found the keys to unlock the huge unmet demand of informal clients. She explores how these social activists shaped the character of the institutions that now dominate Bolivia’s microfinance sector, and traces how these institutions proved that lending to microenterprises could become a commercial business. Rhyne investigates the transformation of NGOs into formal financial institutions, led by the creation of BancoSol, and closely examines microfinance under the conditions of commercialization and competition that have altered the dynamics of the new industry. |
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... POLITICAL CHANGE Microcredit grew in a time of important political changes for Bolivia as well as economic changes . Here , too , the role of the informal sector has posed funda- mental questions . As the informal sector emerged into ...
... POLITICAL CHANGE Microcredit grew in a time of important political changes for Bolivia as well as economic changes . Here , too , the role of the informal sector has posed funda- mental questions . As the informal sector emerged into ...
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... political and economic leaders continue to come from the traditional , elite descendants of the Spanish . Friends of former President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada jokingly call him a Hong Kong gover- nor a foreigner at the end of a long ...
... political and economic leaders continue to come from the traditional , elite descendants of the Spanish . Friends of former President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada jokingly call him a Hong Kong gover- nor a foreigner at the end of a long ...
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... political organization and is adamant that politicians should not dominate microfinance organizations . This may seem ironic , when some of the founding directors of Prodem were among Bolivia's most prominent politicians ( though they ...
... political organization and is adamant that politicians should not dominate microfinance organizations . This may seem ironic , when some of the founding directors of Prodem were among Bolivia's most prominent politicians ( though they ...
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A SKETCH OF BOLIVIAN MICROFINANCE IN 1999 | 15 |
3 | 29 |
BUILDERS | 93 |
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Acción activists altiplano assets associations Aymara Banco Económico BancoSol become began Bolivia Model Bolivian microfinance borrowers Caja capital CEDLA changes chapter clients competition consumer lenders costs created credit unions crisis David Blanco delinquency donors early economic enterprises equity Fassil Fernando Romero financial institutions financial sector financial system financial viability formal funds Grameen Grameen Bank growth hyperinflation Idepro important income informal sector interest rates investment investors La Paz lending loan officers Lozada mainstream Manuel Cuevas ment methodology microcredit microenterprise microfinance in Bolivia microfinance industry microfinance institutions microfinance lenders microfinance programs microlenders NGOs offer operations organizations ownership Pancho Otero percent political poor poverty poverty line Procredito Prodem Prodem staff profitability ProMujer ProMujer and Crecer repayment risk rural areas Santa Cruz Sartawi savings social subsidies tion transformation urban USAID Velasco village banking World Bank