Microfinance

Preface vii Introduction 1 Malcolm Harper 1. Financial innovations for microenterprises - linking formal and informal financial institutions Hans Dieter Seibel and Uben Parhusip 2. Savings mobilization and microenterprise programmes Maria Otero 3. Raising the curtain on the 'microfinancial services era' Stuart Rutherford 4. Towards a more market-oriented approach to credit and savings for the poor Henry R. Jackelen and Elisabeth Rhyne 5. Microinsurance - the risks, perils and opportunities Warren Brown 6. Regulating microfinance - the options Robert Peck Christen and Richard Rosenberg 7. Commercial banks and women microentrepreneurs in Latin America Gloria Almeyda Stemper 8. Credit for the rural poor - the case of BRAC in Bangladesh A. M. R. Chowdhury, M. Mahmood and F. H. Abed 9.…