"Focuses on the successful evolution of and remaining weaknesses in FINCA's policies in offering efficient financial services, and emphasizes the organization's need to secure its own long-term future and financial viability to offer better services to its clients. Provides detailed...

This article examines the role that regulated Micro Finance Organizations (MFO) have played in the Bolivian financial sector development. Using occasional references, the paper also acknowledges the contribution of non-regulated MFO in improving welfare of poor population sectors. Among policy...

This book reviews the theory and practice of rural finance in the Latin American and Caribbean region. It explains why rural financial markets function the way they do and what changes would be needed to make improvements. It also provides an in-depth assessment of the policy and institutional...