Pathways Out of Poverty : Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families

by Daley-Harris, Sam

• ISBN13: 9781565491595
• ISBN10: 1565491599
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

Microfinance is a key intervention in helping poor families in developing countries move out of poverty. The Microcredit Summit Campaign has been working since 1997 to promote microfinance, with the aim of reaching 100 million of the world's poorest families by 2005. This book, published five years after the first Microcredit Summit, challenges conventional wisdoms and explores in depth the Campaign's core themes: reaching the poorest, reaching and empowering women, building financially self-sufficient institutions, and ensuring a positive measurable impact on the lives of clients and their families. The book will serve as a roadmap for development agencies working to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, including the goal of cutting absolute poverty in half by 2015. Overview of Contents Acknowledgments / Preface / Acronyms Ensuring Impact: Reaching The Poorest While Building Financially Self-Sufficient Institutions, and Showing Improvement in The Lives of The Poorest Women and Their Families --Anton Simanowitz with Alice Walter Building Better Lives: Sust

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Preface	xi
Sam Daley-Harris
Acronyms	xv
Ensuring Impact: Reaching the Poorest while Building Financially Self-Sufficient Institutions, and Showing Improvement in the Lives of the Poorest Women and Their Families	1	(74)
Anton Simanowitz
Alice Walter
Building Better Lives: Sustainable Integration of Microfinance with Education in Child Survival, Reproductive Health, and HIV/AIDS Prevention for the Poorest Entrepreneurs	75	(58)
Christopher Dunford
Innovations from the Field: A Daringly Brief Summary of a Huge Phenomenon	133	(34)
John K. Hatch
Sara R. Levine
Amanda Penn
Empowering Women through Microfinance	167	(62)
Susy Cheston
Lisa Kuhn
Financing Microfinance for Poverty Reduction	229	(34)
David S. Gibbons
Jennifer W. Meehan
Policies, Regulations, and Systems that Promote Sustainable Financial Services to the Poor and Poorest	263	(38)
Women's World Banking
Bibliography	301	(10)
Index	311	(19)
About the Authors	330