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Microfinance Cooperatives
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Credit Unions and the Poverty Challenge: Extending Outreach, Enhancing Sustainability $14.95 This book, prepared by international experts on microfinance, reviews experiences with refinancing credit unions in several countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas in an effort to improve their growth and outreach to the poor. It examines issues vital to credit unions such as refinancing and loan portfolios, external credit lines and debt finance. Drawing on proceedings from the 1995 World Sum… |
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Financial Cooperatives and Local Development (Routledge Studies in Development Economics) $124.65 This book examines the opportunities opened up for financial cooperatives by the recent financial crisis, and explores the role of these institutions in promoting and sustaining local development. The global financial crisis has not only shown the limits of the mainstream theory of markets and rational expectations, but has also generated a great deal of disillusionment with the banking system and… |
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Cooperative Financial Institutions: Issues in Governance, Regulation, And Supervision (World Bank Working Papers) $9.99 A comprehensive review of theoretical and empirical literature on cooperative financial institutions (CFIs) aimed at identifying aspects of the industry structure, governance, legal framework, regulation and supervision where important knowledge gaps exist. The paper formulates a number of propositions for testing, which would contribute to providing a basis for common standards in regulation and… |