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Access for All: Building Inclusive Financial Systems [Paperback]

Brigit Helms (Author)

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Publication Date: January 19, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0821363603 | ISBN-13: 978-0821363607 | Edition: 1

In the past ten years, the world of microfinance has changed dramatically. The field has moved rapidly from early innovations in providing loans to help poor entrepreneurs start businesses to a bold vision of creating entire financial systems that work for the poor. Microfinance has proven to be an effective tool for reducing poverty and helping poor people to improve their lives. And yet a diverse range of potential clients still lack access to an array of financial services – not just credit for enterprise but also a safe place to save, the ability to transfer funds to family members, insurance against sickness or other household disasters, and other ways to mitigate risk in vulnerability. The challenge today is to engage more types of distribution systems, more technologies and more talent to create financial systems that work for the poor and boost their contribution to economic growth. This title explains what this new vision of microfinance means in practical, non-technical terms.

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Paperback: 184 pages
Publisher: World Bank Publications; 1 edition (January 19, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0821363603
ISBN-13: 978-0821363607
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
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Latin America, South Africa, Bank Rakayat Indonesia, United States, Rating Fund, South Asia, Mix Market, Big Lender, Microbanking Bulletin, West Africa, Adrian Gonzalez, Grameen Bank, Microcredit Summit Campaign Report, Numbers Financial, Sub-Saharan Africa, Fondo Financiero Privado, Ford Foundation, The Story So Far, World Bank, Equity Bank, Open Society Institute, Source Christen, World Council of Credit Unions, Inter-American Development Bank

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The Poor and Their Money (Oxford India Paperbacks) by Stuart Rutherford on 4 pages
Costa Rica: An Ecotravellers Guide -- 2006 publication by Robinson in Back Matter
Global Development Finance 2002: Financing the Poorest Countries (v. 1 & 2) by World Bank in Back Matter
Financial Services (Aspects of Britain) by Central Office of Information on page 77
Final report (CCS occasional paper ; no. 6) by Speyside Project in Back Matter

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