Replicating Microfinance in the United States"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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Working Capital and the NCRC are separate networks of afμliated programs and represent the more sustainable peer-group lending programs in the United States, although there were turnovers of individual programs within each network.
In the United States, formal credit institutions have been developed to help borrowers demonstrate or monetize their willingness and ability to repay a loan—for instance, through the history of credit card payments and their timeliness, ...
All these factors signiμcantly add to the transaction costs of starting a business in an industrial economy such as the United State—above and beyond those costs microcredit borrowers everywhere incur in participating in a peer-group ...
However, group meetings were typically held more frequently in the developing-country programs (weekly) than in the United States, where most programs (76 percent) held group meetings between once or twice a month (table 8.2).