TY - BOOK AU - Versluysen, Eugene TI - Defying the odds: banking for the poor SN - 978-1565490932 PY - 1999/// CY - USA PB - Kumarian Press KW - Banking KW - Economic development KW - Developing countries KW - Credit N1 - $24.95; The Political Economy of Microfinance -- Poverty Is Not Created by the Poor -- Self-Employment: A Cure for Poverty? -- Banking for the Unbankable -- The Asian Pioneers of Microfinance -- Challenging Social Norms to Empower the Landless Poor in Bangladesh -- Bold Experiments with Unit Banking in Indonesia -- Informality and Microfinance in Latin America -- Coping with the Lost Decade -- Financing Bolivia's Urban Informal Sector -- Rising Informality and Microfinance in Peru -- Experimenting with Microfinance in West Africa -- West Africa: A Region Mired in Poverty -- Blending Microfinance with Training: Lessons from Guinea -- Microfinance in Perspective -- Learning from Microfinance ER -