It is known that micro and small enterprises (often unbankable) have usually difficulties in the access to the financial system; in order to facilitate their credit access in many countries different kind of mutual guarantee schemes and institutions generally grant different typologies of...

The Chapter is dedicated to the analysis of the main operational features of the guarantee funds in a number of microcredit programmes. This chapter, which relates to our investigation area dedicated Microcredit guarantee funds, as underlined before is meant to whereas microcredit programmes...

The Chapter provide a mapping of the different microcredit/microfinance institutions in each country. In fact, according to the logic scheme used in this research, the investigation area dedicated Mapping Microcredit/ Microfinance institutions/ operators aims to provide mapping of the number,...