Microfinance and Poverty: Questioning the Conventional WisdomIDB, 1998 - 111 pages |
Contents
Common Assumptions about Microentrepreneurs | 1 |
Common Assumptions about the Outreach | 4 |
MFIs face a tradeoff between reaching | 15 |
MFIs must specifically target the poorest | 18 |
MFIs working with poor people in rural areas | 27 |
Common terms and phrases
access to credit access to financial Accion International assets Assumption average loan BancoSol Bangladesh Bolivia borrowers CGAP Chile CIPAME constraint contribute to poverty demonstrate deposit services depth of outreach donors economic Ecuador effective financial services financial sustainability financial system formal financial institutions geographical outreach Grameen Bank Honduras Hulme and Mosley impact assessment studies impact of microfinance improve indicate Indonesia Inter-American Development Bank interest rates investment Latin America micro Microcredit Summit microen microenterprise development microenterprise sector Microfinance and Poverty microfinance industry microfinance institutions microfinance programs nance NGOs non-poor clients number of poor Paraguay percent percentage poor clients poor microentrepreneurs poor people's population poverty incidence poverty interventions poverty level poverty line poverty reduction PRODEM promote reach poorer reach the poorest reducing poverty rural areas SANASA Sartawi scale of outreach small-scale financial transactions social solidarity group Table tions trade-off transaction costs urban MFIS village banks Washington D.C. women