000			01084nam a2200145Ia 4500
020			_a978-1565490932
100			_aVersluysen, Eugene
245			_aDefying the odds: banking for the poor
260			_c1999 _bKumarian Press _aUSA
300			_axiii,255p. _b23 cm ; Pbk
500			_a$24.95
505			_aThe 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.
650			_aBanking _aEconomic development _aDeveloping countries _aCredit
942			_cBK
999			_c81570 _d81570