To date, over 689 million people worldwide subsist in extreme poverty. To address this staggering statistic, this paper explores two leading microfinance models as potential solutions. First, there is a focus on the Grameen Solidarity Group model and its reliance on group accountability to...

"Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have achieved considerable economic growth, yet the region still faces many seemingly intractable problems. The conventional wisdom in development agencies - that prioritization is impossible and that everything must be done - is simply not...