Replicating Microfinance in the United StatesJames H. Carr, Zhong Yi Tong Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 28/06/2002 - 387 من الصفحات "With the publication of this volume, knowledge and understanding of the practices of delivering micro-credit reach a new level of consolidation, and the stage is set for important further steps."—from the Foreword by Richard P. Taub, University of Chicago Microfinance was pioneered in the developing world as the lending of small amounts of money to entrepreneurs who lacked the kinds of credentials and collateral demanded by banks. Similar practices spread from the developing to the developed world, reversing the usual direction of innovation, and today several hundred microfinance institutions are operating in the United States. Replicating Microfinace in the United States reviews experiences in both developing and industrialized countries and extends the applications of microlending beyond enterprise to consumer finance, housing finance, and community development finance, concentrating especially on previously underserved households and their communities. Contributors include Nitin Bhatt, Robert M. Buckley, Bruce Ferguson, Elinor Haider, Chi-kan Richard Hung, Sally R. Merrill, Jonathan Morduch, Gary Painter, Sohini Sarkar, Mark Schreiner, Lisa Servon, Ayse Can Talen, Shui-Yan Tang, Kenneth Temkin, Andres Vinelli, J. D. Von Pischke and Marc A. Weiss. Replicating Microfinance in the United States is based on papers commissioned by the Fannie Mae Foundation and findings from an October 2001 conference jointly held by the Fannie Mae Foundation and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. |
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... behavior . Means of creating a constructive incentive framework include making a distinction between the initial subsidy to establish microfinance initiatives and contin- uing subsidies to keep money losers afloat , and sunset clauses ...
... behavior of donors , as re- flected by the large number of providers that are unlikely ever to be sus- tainable without a subsidy . The provision of subsidies creates some perverse effects when donors are not good judges of what results ...
... behavior is important . Examples include Grameen Bank , CARD , and the Women's Thrift and Savings Society in Sri Lanka . Grameen Bank offers housing loans only to successful microenterprise borrowers as a kind of reward , because ...
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Opportunities and Challenges for Microfinance | 19 |
Current Foundations of Microfinance Best Practices | 97 |
Fulfilling the Potential of the U S Microenterprise Strategy | 169 |
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