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This extensive Reading List, largely compiled from -The New World of Micro Enterprise Finance", by Maria Otero and Elisabeth Rhyne, is provided for suggested further reading.

ACCION International. 1990. " Informe, Sexto Taller Inter-

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ACCION International and The Calmeadow Foundation.

1988. An Operational Guide for M icro- Enterprise
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Acharya, M., and L. Bennet. 1982. "Women and the

Subsistence Sector: Economic Participation and
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Adams, Dale W. 1971. "Agricultural Credit in Latin America: A

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1973. "The Case for Voluntary Savings Mobilization: Why Rural
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1978. "Mobilizing Household Savings through Rural Financial
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1984. To Rural Savings Matter?" Studies in Rural Finance,
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Ohio State University.

1988. "The Conundrum of Successful Credit Projects in
Floundering Rural Financial Markets." Economic Development and
Cultural Change 36(2)355-67.

Adams, Dale W., and Delbert A. Fitchett, eds. 1992. Informal

Finance in Low-Income Countries. Boulder,
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Adams, Dale W, and Douglas H. Graham. 198 1. "A Critique of Traditional

Agricultural Credit Projects and Policies." Journal of Development
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Adams, Dale W., Douglas H. Graham, and John D. Von Pischke, eds. 1984.

Undermining Rural Development with Cheap Credit. B-Oulder,
CO:Westview Press.

Adams, Dale W., and G.I. Nehman. 1979. "Borrowing Costs and the

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Adams, Dale W., and Pablo Romero. 1981. "Group Lending to the Rural

Poor in the Domincan Republic: A Stunted Innovation. " Canadian
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Adams, Dale W., and Robert C. Vogel. 1986. "Rural Financial Markets in

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Afwan, Ismah. 1991. "A Review of BRI Unit Development (Background,

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Policy and Implementation Studies (CPIS).

Agabin, Meliza H. 1985. "Rural Savings Mobilization: An Asian

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Ahmed, Zia. 1989. "Effective Costs of Rural Loans in Bangladesh" in

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Aleke-Dondo, C., and Albert Kimanthi Mutua. 1990. Informal Financial

Markets in Kenya." Nairobi: Kenya Rural Enterprise Program.

Ardilla Iprosco, Fabio. 1990. "Evaluation of the Omnibus Small Business

Enterprise Project." Mimeo. Bogota, Colombia: Catholic Relief
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Arunachalam, Jaya. 1988. "Credit Needs of Women Workers in the informal

Sector, Case Study of Working Women's Forum (India)." Mimeo.
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Ashe, Jeffrey. 1985. The Pisces 11 Experience: local Efforts in M icro-

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1986. Solidarity Groups and Women's World Bank: Experiences
from Cali, Colombia. Cambridge: ACCION.

Ashe, Jeffrey, Madeline Hirshland, and Jill Burnett. 1992. Access to Credit

for Poor Women: A Scale-up Study of Projects Carried out by
Freedom from Hunger in Mali and Ghana. Washington, DC: GEMINI.

Asociacion Grupos Solidarios de Colombia (AGS). 1991 a. "Balance

Comparativo 1989-1990. " Mimeo. Bogota, Colombia: AGS.

1991 b "Balance General a Diciembre 31 de 1990". Mimeo.
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1991c. "Consolidation and Promotion of Solidarity Groups
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1991d. "Final Progress Report/Ford Foundation: Intitutional
consolidation and Research Project." Mimeo. Bogota, Colombia: AGS.

1991e. 1nstitutional Consolidation and Research Project." Final
progress report presented to the Ford Foundation. Bogota, Colombia:
AGS.

1991f. "Presupuesto de Operacion y Funcionamiento para el ano de
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Bennett, Lynn. 1990. "An Approach to the Study of Women's Productive

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Binswanger, Hans P. and Mark R. Rosenzweig. 1986. "Behavioral and Material

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Blair, Harry W. "Agricultural Credit, Political Economy, and Patronage." In

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Bournan, F.J.A., 1989. Small, Short and Unsecured: Informal Finance in

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Castello, Carlos. 1991 a. Asociacion Grupos Solidarios de Colombia:

Definicion, Programas y Resultados. "Mimeo/ Bogota, Colombia.

Castello, Carlos, Katherine Sterns, and Robert Peck Christen. 1991.

Exposing Interest Rates: Their True Significance for
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Center for Women and Development, 1989. "Production Credit for Rural Women
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Cernea, Michael, ed. 1985. Putting People First: Sociological Variables

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Chambers, Robert. 1984. Rural Development: Putting the last First.

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Chandravarkar, Anand G. 1987. "The Informal Financial Sector in

Developing Countries". Occasional paper No. 2. Kuala Lumpur,
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Chen, Martha Alter. 1991. Coping with Seasonality and Drought, New Delhi: Sage.

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1990. Financial Management of Micro-Credit Programs: A
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Christen, Robert Peck, Elisabeth Rhyne, and Robert Vogel. 1994.

Maximizing the Outreach of Microenterprise Finance: The Emerging
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Creevey, Lucy. 1996. Changing Women's Lives and Work: An

Analysis of the Impacts of Eight Microenterprise Projects.
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De Santis, Dennis, and Paola long. 1989. "Microenterprise Stocktaking:

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Donald, Gordon. 1976. Credit for Small Farmers in Developing Countries.

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Downing, Jeanne. 1990. "Gender and the Growth and

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Drake, Deborah, and Maria Otero. 1992. Alchemists for the Poor:

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Ebdon, Rosamund. 1995. %GO Expansion and the Fight to Reach the

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Farbman, Michael. 1981. "The Pisces Studies: Assisting the Smallest

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Fernando, Nimal A. 1988. "The Interest Rate Structure and Factors

Affecting Interest Rate Determination in the Informal Rural
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Fischer, William, Jeffrey Poyo, and Ann Beasley. 1992. "Evaluation of the

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Fisseha, Yacob. 1991. "Small-Scale Enterprises in Lesotho: Summary of a

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Fisseha, Yacob, and Michael A. McPherson. 1991. "A Countrywide Study of

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