"With the publication of this volume, knowledge and
understanding of the practices of delivering micro-credit reach a
new level of consolidation, and the stage is set for important
further steps."--from the Foreword by Richard P. Taub, University
of Chicago
Microfinance was pioneered in the developing world as the
lending of small amounts of money to entrepreneurs who lacked the
kinds of credentials and collateral demanded by banks. Similar
practices spread from the developing to the developed world,
reversing the usual direction of innovation, and today several
hundred microfinance institutions are operating in the United
States.
"Replicating Microfinace in the United States" reviews
experiences in both developing and industrialized countries and
extends the applications of microlending beyond enterprise to
consumer finance, housing finance, and community development
finance, concentrating especially on previously underserved
households and their communities.
Contributors include Nitin Bhatt, Robert M. Buckley, Bruce
Ferguson, Elinor Haider, Chi-kan Richard Hung, Sally R. Merrill,
Jonathan Morduch, Gary Painter, Sohini Sarkar, Mark Schreiner, Lisa
Servon, Ayse Can Talen, Shui-Yan Tang, Kenneth Temkin, Andres
Vinelli, J. D. Von Pischke and Marc A. Weiss.
"Replicating Microfinance in the United States" is based on
papers commissioned by the Fannie Mae Foundation and findings from
an October 2001 conference jointly held by the Fannie Mae
Foundation and Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in
Washington, D.C.
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