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We in the community of microfinance specialists want to help alleviate poverty. We think microfinance is a useful tool. Yet, by bringing these two concerns together, we might be mixing up two diverging ends: one is poverty reduction; the other one the development of a healthy microfinance...
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institutional sustainability even in a most difficult environment. Yet, the large majority of AgDBs in Asia and elsewhere are … years. However, experience in Asia shows that there is an enormous potential for reform. There is little chance that the … throughout Asia and the Pacific. The Microcredit Summit Campaign may play an important role in generating the necessary political …
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The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh is widely considered as one of the world's most sucessful financial institutions banking with the poor. In an effort to alleviate poverty, donors have supported replication programs in 26 countries. This analysis is based on some case studies from Indonesia, the...
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Our knowledge about microfinance in developing countries has been greatly enriched in recent years by the experience of numerous institutions. Different sound technologies and practices of financial services to all segments of the population have emerged; there is no single best practice or...
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In most Asian countries including Vietnam, inadequate access of small farmers and microentepreneurs including women and the poor to effective financial services presents a major challenge. Such services must include facilities to deposit microsavings, access to microcredit for production,...
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The evidence from selected Asian countries shows that: ? Microfinance on the whole has weathered the crisis well. The strongest of the microfinance systems in the region, the BRI unit system in Indonesia, has emerged from the crisis even stronger than before, characterized by a surge in savings...
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