Microfinance for the Poor?

Edited by Hartmut Schneider

Supporting microfinance approaches for the poor is a necessary ingredient in poverty alleviation. Drawing on a wide base of experience and new data, this book offers a comprehensive and balanced analysis of major issues and apporaches in microfinance aiming at the poor. It guards against promoting a single model of microfinance and burdening financial services with unrealistic expectations for poverty alleviation, while also offering guidance for reconciling outreach and sustainability of financial institutions serving ever-growing numbers of the poor.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introductory Overview: Principles and Perspectives
    J.D. Von Pischke, Hartmut Schneider and Rauno Zander

    PART ONE. FOCUS ON MAIN ISSUES

  • Integrating the Poor into the Rural Financial Mainstream: Issues and Options
    Rauno Zander
  • Performance of Development Finance Institutions: How to Assess It?
    Jacob Yaron
  • Bank-NGO Linkages and the Transaction Costs of Lending to the Poor through Groups: Evidence from India and the Philippines
    Paul B. McGuire and John D. Conroy

    PART TWO, SELECTED CASES OF INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

  • Developing Financial Services in Disadvantaged Regions: Self-managed Village Savings and Loan Associations in the Dogon Region of Mali
    Renée Chao-Béroff
  • Building up Capacity for Banking with the Poor', The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh The Challenge of Growth for Microfinance Organizations: The Case of Banco Solidario in Bolivia
    Claudio Gonzalez-Vega et al.

    PART THREE. NEW MECHANISMS FOR ENHANCING SUSTAINABILITY AND RESOURCE BASE

  • Innovative Funding of Capacity Development: The Case of the "Self-administered Capital Fund" Instrument in German Bilateral Co-operation
    Thomas Feige
  • Debt-to-Development Conversions: Mechanisms, Expen'ence and Potential
    Marie-Hélène Libercier

  • List of Participants
IFAD and OECD
206 pages, OECD, Paris 1997 FF95; US$19; DM28 ISBN 92-64-15415-9 (41 97 03 1)
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