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A collection of 28 case-studies from 17 countries, this book describes failures as well as successes, and provides stimulating material for students, teachers, trainers and business people themselves.

Where does microfinance go, then, in the midst of such crises? Are the basic principals of finance for the poor salvageable? From its inception in 1996, BASIX, one of the largest microfinance institutions in India realized that focusing solely on loans wasn't going to improve the lives of its poor clients. The BASIX experience presents a vital model for the microfinance organization of the future, one that responds to client's diverse needs by...

This book illustrates the radical changes that have taken place in the evolution of assistance to small businesses and microfinance. It shows how to make markets really work, how to reduce dependence on donor agencies and illustrates critical issues, new findings and radical changes with a wealth of wide-ranging material.

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The need for new forms of employment and economic diversification in rural areas has led to a growing interest in rural enterprise. This book is a collection of case studies, representing an overview of the problems and opportunities in this field.

The authors show that it is possible to measure and compare the costs and benefits of small enterprise development programmes, and that donors, NGOs, tax-payers and small business people themselves should demand that those who are responsible for such programmes must demonstrate that they are providing value for money.

The objective of this book is to provide information about entrepreneurship development programmes whose objective is to help people from the poorer groups in developing countries to create jobs for themselves by starting small enterprises.

Micro-credit is the latest development fashion, and has even received the ultimate accolade of a "world summit."What is not appreciated is that there is a wide variety of quite different approaches to the profitable delivery of financial services to the poor. Such services are being and, indeed, have for many years been provided by different types of institutions, including traditional commercial banks, NGO s, and the much publicized "new gene...

This book describes the experiences of a wide range of enterprises, banks and other agencies with partnership finance. Musharaka, or partnership financing, is a method used by Islamic financial institutions which reject the concept of fixed interest. It is, effectively, a much-simplified form of venturecapital. It is generally recognized that small businesses and microenterprises can make effective use of institutional finance, and there is a ...

bTitle:/b Rambles in Galloway: topographical, historical, traditional, and biographical. ... With illustrations ... by Faed, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, st...

bTitle:/b The Bards of Galloway: a collection of poems, songs, ballads, &c., , by natives of Galloway. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by M. McL. Harper. Illustrated by T. Faed, ... J. Faed, ... and other Galloway Artists.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items...

bTitle:/b Rambles in Galloway. (Second edition.) L.P.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books,...

Islamic Microfinance critically examines the performance of fifteen institutions and demonstrate how Islamic methods can efficiently satisfy the needs of some types of client but not all. It asks which types of products are affordable and beneficial, for which purposes and for whom.

¿Modern¿ integrated value chains need not necessarily exclude the smallest producers as this book aims to explain in detail by case studies. The issue is particularly topical in India, where modern retailing has come to the scene only recently and the majority of whose population are still small farmers and artisans. Following a brief introduction to the problem, 14 case studies from India are presented to illustrate how it is being solved in ...

Commercial and Inclusive Value Chains includes case studies on fifteen profitable and inclusive value chains from different countries in Western, Eastern and North Eastern Africa, and from India, Cambodia, Peru.

Commercial and Inclusive Value Chains includes case studies on fifteen profitable and inclusive value chains from different countries in Western, Eastern and North Eastern Africa, and from India, Cambodia, Peru.

Selected by Malcolm Harper, this compilation comprises fourteen articles on the major developments in microfinance in the last twelve years. Some show how certain aspects of the field have changed quite dramatically, others cover issues which have continued throughout the period to preoccupy practitioners and policy makers, and others raise critical and worrying concerns about the future of microfinance. All have been written by experienced au...

This book shows commercial bankers that they can profitably provide microfinance services to the poor. It illustrates, through the experience of particular banks, why banks have become involved and how they have made a success of their involvement.The eighteen case studies all show that banks can earn good profits at the same time as serving the needs of people who previously lacked access to financial services.The authors also demonstrate to ...

This important book suggests a strategy to overcome what appears to be an otherwise hopeless situation - 'micro-privatization'.To illustrate the efficacy of this strategy, Malcolm Harper presents case studies, which amply demonstrate that micro-privatization is practical anywhere.