This extensive Reading List, largely compiled from -The New World of Micro
Enterprise Finance", by Maria Otero and Elisabeth Rhyne, is provided for
suggested further reading.
ACCION International. 1990. " Informe, Sexto Taller Inter-
Programas, Inovacciones Metodologicas y el Desafio de
La Masificacion." Mazatenango, Guatelmala: ACCION
International. 199 1. " Informe Anual de Estadisticas. "
Cambridge, MA: ACCION International.
ACCION International and The Calmeadow Foundation.
1988. An Operational Guide for M icro- Enterprise
Projects. Toronto: Calmeadow.
Acharya, M., and L. Bennet. 1982. "Women and the
Subsistence Sector: Economic Participation and
Household DecisionMaking in Nepal." World Bank Staff
Working Paper No. 526. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Adams, Dale W. 1971. "Agricultural Credit in Latin America: A
Critical Review of External Funding Policy." American
Journal of Agricultural Economics 53 (2): 163-72.
1973. "The Case for Voluntary Savings Mobilization: Why Rural
Capital Markets Flounder." Mimeo. Washington, DC: USAID,
19:309-34.
1978. "Mobilizing Household Savings through Rural Financial
Markets." Economic Development and Cultural Change 26(3):547-
60.
1984. To Rural Savings Matter?" Studies in Rural Finance,
Economics and Sociology Occasional Paper No. 1083. Columbus:
Ohio State University.
1988. "The Conundrum of Successful Credit Projects in
Floundering Rural Financial Markets." Economic Development and
Cultural Change 36(2)355-67.
Adams, Dale W., and Delbert A. Fitchett, eds. 1992. Informal
Finance in Low-Income Countries. Boulder,
CO:Westview Press.
Adams, Dale W, and Douglas H. Graham. 198 1. "A Critique of Traditional
Agricultural Credit Projects and Policies." Journal of Development
Economics 8(3):347-66. 1984. "A Critique of Traditional Agricultural
Credit Projects and Policies.: In Agricultural Development in the Third
World ed. by Carl Eicher and John M. Staatz. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press.
Adams, Dale W., Douglas H. Graham, and John D. Von Pischke, eds. 1984.
Undermining Rural Development with Cheap Credit. B-Oulder,
CO:Westview Press.
Adams, Dale W., and G.I. Nehman. 1979. "Borrowing Costs and the
Demand for Rural Credit." Journal of Development Studies 15: 165-
76.
Adams, Dale W., and Pablo Romero. 1981. "Group Lending to the Rural
Poor in the Domincan Republic: A Stunted Innovation. " Canadian
Journal of Agricultural Economics July: 216-24.
Adams, Dale W., and Robert C. Vogel. 1986. "Rural Financial Markets in
Low Income Countries: Recent Controversies and Lessons." World
Development 14(4):477-87.
Afwan, Ismah. 1991. "A Review of BRI Unit Development (Background,
Philosophy and Historical Analysis). " Mimeo. Jakarta: Center for
Policy and Implementation Studies (CPIS).
Agabin, Meliza H. 1985. "Rural Savings Mobilization: An Asian
Perspective and Prospect." CB Review 37:7-1 5.
Ahmed, Zia. 1989. "Effective Costs of Rural Loans in Bangladesh" in
World Development 17(3):357-363.
Aleke-Dondo, C., and Albert Kimanthi Mutua. 1990. Informal Financial
Markets in Kenya." Nairobi: Kenya Rural Enterprise Program.
Ardilla Iprosco, Fabio. 1990. "Evaluation of the Omnibus Small Business
Enterprise Project." Mimeo. Bogota, Colombia: Catholic Relief
Services.
Arunachalam, Jaya. 1988. "Credit Needs of Women Workers in the informal
Sector, Case Study of Working Women's Forum (India)." Mimeo.
Mylapore.
Ashe, Jeffrey. 1985. The Pisces 11 Experience: local Efforts in M icro-
Enterprise Development, vol.2, Case Studies. Washington,
D.C.: USAID.
1986. Solidarity Groups and Women's World Bank: Experiences
from Cali, Colombia. Cambridge: ACCION.
Ashe, Jeffrey, Madeline Hirshland, and Jill Burnett. 1992. Access to Credit
for Poor Women: A Scale-up Study of Projects Carried out by
Freedom from Hunger in Mali and Ghana. Washington, DC: GEMINI.
Asociacion Grupos Solidarios de Colombia (AGS). 1991 a. "Balance
Comparativo 1989-1990. " Mimeo. Bogota, Colombia: AGS.
1991 b "Balance General a Diciembre 31 de 1990". Mimeo.
Bogota, Colombia: AGS.
1991c. "Consolidation and Promotion of Solidarity Groups
Microenterprise Programs." Mimeo. Bogota, Colombia: AGS.
1991d. "Final Progress Report/Ford Foundation: Intitutional
consolidation and Research Project." Mimeo. Bogota, Colombia: AGS.
1991e. 1nstitutional Consolidation and Research Project." Final
progress report presented to the Ford Foundation. Bogota, Colombia:
AGS.
1991f. "Presupuesto de Operacion y Funcionamiento para el ano de
199l." Mimeo. Bogota, Columbia: AGS.
Bakhoum, lbrahima, et al. 1989. Banking the Unbankable: Bringing Credit
to the Poor. London: Panos.
Banco Solidario, S.A. (Bancosol). 1991. "Prouecto de Factibilidad." La Paz, Bolivia.
1992a. "Policy Statement." La Paz,
Bolivia.
1992b. "Presupuesto Gestion 1992." La Paz,
Bolivia.
Bangladesh Bank. 1979. Problems and issues of Agricultural Credit
and Rural Finance. Dhaka: Bangladesh Bank.
Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI). 1985. Bank Rakyat Indonesia dalam Era Pembangunan 90th Anniversary Book. Jakarta : BRI
1990 "Briefing Booklet: KUPEDES Development Impact Survey".
Jakarta: Planning Research and Development Department, BRI. '
Bartel, Margaret. 1992. "Financial Ratios: A Tool of Financial
Management in Microenterprise Credit Programmes." GEMINI
Technical Report No. 7. Bethesda, MD: Development
Alternatives, Inc.
Bath, Paquita, and Dinora Mendes de Sanchez, eds. 1990. The
Evolution of a Relationship: A History of OEF International and
OEF de EI Salvador. an Salvador: Asociacion para la
Organizacion Empresarial Femenina de EI Salvador (OEF/ES)
Bennett, Lynn. 1990. "An Approach to the Study of Women's Productive
Roles as a Determinant of Intra-Household Allocation Patterns." In
Intra-Household Resource Allocation: Issues and Methods for
Development Policy and Planning, edited by Beatrice Lorge Rogers
and Nina R Schlossman. Tokyo: United Nations University.
Bentson, George J., et al. 1986. Safe and Sound Banking. Past,
Present, and Future. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Berger, Maguerite. 1989. "Giving Women Credit: The Strengths and
limitations of Credit as a Tool for Alleviating Poverty." in World
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Berger, Maguerite and Mayra Buvinic, eds. 1989. Women's Ventures:
Assistance to the Informal Sector in Latin America. West Hartford,
CT: Kumarian Press.
Biggs, Tyler S., Donaid R. Snodgrass, and Pradeep Srivastava. 1990. "On
Minimalist Credit Programs." Development Discussion Paper No.
331. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Institute for International Development.
Binswanger, Hans P. and Mark R. Rosenzweig. 1986. "Behavioral and
Material
Determinants of Production Relations in Agriculture." Journal of
Development Studies 22(3):503-39
Blair, Harry W. "Agricultural Credit, Political Economy, and Patronage." In
Undermining Rural Development with Cheap Credit, edited by Dale
Adams, Douglas Graham, and J.D. Von Pischke, 183-193. Boulder,
CO: Westview Press.
Boomgard, James J. 1989. "AID Microenterprise Stocktaking: Synthesis
Report." AID Evaluation Special Study No. 65. Washington, DC:
USAID
Boomgard, James J., James Hern, Calvin Miller, and Richard H Patten.
192. "A Review of the Prospects for Rural Financial Institution
Development in Bolivia." GEMINI Technical Report No. 3 1.
Bethesda, MD:Development Alternatives, Inc.
Bournan, F.J.A., 1989. Small, Short and Unsecured: Informal Finance in
Rural India. Delhi: Oxford, University Press.
Bourne, Compton, and Douglas H. Graham. 1980. "Funding and Viability of
Rural Development Banks.' Savings and Development 4(4):303-19.
Bratton, Michael, 1986. "Financing Smallholder Production: A
Comparison of Individual and Group Credit Schemes in
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32.
Braverman, Avishay. 1989. "Rural Credit Reforms in LDCs: Issues and
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Buechler, Simone. 1995. "The Key to Lending to Women Micro-
Enterprises" in Small Enterprise Development 6(2): 4-15.
Buvinic, Mayra. 1989. " Investing in Poor Women: The Psychology of
Donor Support" in World Development 17 (7).
Buzzard, Shirley, and Elaine Edgcomb, eds. 1987. Monitoring and
Evaluating Small Business Projects: A Step by Step Guide fro Private
Development Organizations. New York: PACT Publications.
Castello, Carlos. 1991 a. Asociacion Grupos Solidarios de Colombia:
Definicion, Programas y Resultados. "Mimeo/ Bogota, Colombia.
Castello, Carlos, Katherine Sterns, and Robert Peck Christen. 1991.
Exposing Interest Rates: Their True Significance for
Microentrepreneurs and Credit Programs. Discussion Paper No. 6.
Cambridge, MA: ACCION International.
Center for Women and Development, 1989. "Production Credit for Rural
Women
Project. An Impact Evaluation Study." Mimeo. Katmandu, Nepal.
Cernea, Michael, ed. 1985. Putting People First: Sociological Variables
in Rural Development. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chambers, Robert. 1984. Rural Development: Putting the last First.
London: Longman
Chandravarkar, Anand G. 1987. "The Informal Financial Sector in
Developing Countries". Occasional paper No. 2. Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia: South East Asian Central Banks (SEACEN) Research
and Training Center
Chen, Martha Alter. 1991. Coping with Seasonality and Drought, New Delhi:
Sage.
Christen, Robert Peck. 1989. "What Microenterprise Credit Programmes
Can Learn From the Moneylenders. "Discussion Papers Series No.
4, Cambridge, MA:ACCION International.
1990. Financial Management of Micro-Credit Programs: A
Guidebook for NG0s. Cambridge, ACCION International.
Christen, Robert Peck, Elisabeth Rhyne, and Robert Vogel. 1994.
Maximizing the Outreach of Microenterprise Finance: The Emerging
Lessons of Successful Programmes. VA:IMCC.
Creevey, Lucy. 1996. Changing Women's Lives and Work: An
Analysis of the Impacts of Eight Microenterprise Projects.
London: IT Publications.
De Santis, Dennis, and Paola long. 1989. "Microenterprise Stocktaking:
Cameroon. AID Evaluation." Occasional paper No. 23. Washington,
DC:US AID.
Donald, Gordon. 1976. Credit for Small Farmers in Developing Countries.
Boulder, CO:Westview Press.
Downing, Jeanne. 1990. "Gender and the Growth and
Dynamics of
Microenterprises." GEMINI Working Paper No. 5. Bethesda,
MD: Development Alternatives, Inc.
Drake, Deborah, and Maria Otero. 1992. Alchemists for the Poor:
NGO's as Financial Institutions. Cambridge, MA: ACCION
International.
Ebdon, Rosamund. 1995. %GO Expansion and the Fight to Reach the
Poor: Gender Implications of NGO Scaling-up in Bangladesh in
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Esman, Milton J. and Norman Uphoff. 1984. Local Organizations:
Intermediaries in Rural Development. Ithica, NY: Comell University
Press.
Farbman, Michael. 1981. "The Pisces Studies: Assisting the Smallest
Economic Activities of the Urban Poor." Washington, DC:USAID.
Fernando, Nimal A. 1988. "The Interest Rate Structure and Factors
Affecting Interest Rate Determination in the Informal Rural
Credit market in Sri Lanka." Savings and Development 12(3):
249-67.
Fischer, William, Jeffrey Poyo, and Ann Beasley. 1992. "Evaluation of the
Micro and Small Enterprise Development Project in Bolivia." GEMINI
Technical Report No. 42. Bethesda, MD:Development Alternatives,
Inc.
Fisseha, Yacob. 1991. "Small-Scale Enterprises in Lesotho: Summary of a
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MD:Development Alternatives, Inc.
Fisseha, Yacob, and Michael A. McPherson. 1991. "A Countrywide Study of
SmallScale Enterprises in Swaziland." GEMINI Technical Report No.
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Floro, S.L., and P. A. Yotopoulos. 1991. Informal Credit Markets and the
New Institutional Economics. The Case of Philippine Agriculture.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Freres, Christian. 1989. Informe Final, Evaluacion de Impact, 1989."
Bogata, Colombia: Asociacion Grupos Solidarios.
Fry, Maxwell J. 1988. Money, Interest, and Banking in Economic
Development. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Gadway, John F, Tantri M. H. Gadway, and Jacob Sardi. 1991. "An
Evaluation of the Institutional Aspects of Financial Institutions
Development Project, Phase 1 in Indonesia." GEMINI Technical
Report No. 15. Bethesda, MD:Development Alternatives, Inc.
Garavito, Jaime A. " Programa de Grupos Solidarios para Trabajadores
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Germidis, Dimitri, Denis Kessler, and Rachel Meghir. 1991. Financial
Systems and Development: What Role for the Formal and Informal
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Get Ahead Foundation. 1991. "Stokvel Department Quarterly
Report." Mimeo. Pretoria, South Africa.
Goldmark, Susan, and Jay Rosengard. 1983. Credit to Indonesian
Entrepreneurs: An Assessment of the Badan Kredit Kecamatan
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Gonzales-Vega, Claudio. 1990. "On the Viability of Agricultural
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Grameen Bank Donor Consortium. 1988. "Grameen Bank, Phase Ill
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Harper, Malcolm and Kavil Ramachandran. 1984. Small Business
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Hilhorst, Thea and Harry Oppenoorth. 1992. "Financing Women's
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Horten, David and Karl Pillemer. 1983. "Self-Help Groups and Social
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Hossain, Hamabub. 1988. "Credit for Alleviation of Rural Poverty: The
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