Beyond Micro-Credit sets out how Indian Micro-Finance Initiatives are combining micro-finance with a wide range of development goals, these include not only pov

The remarkable speed at which microcredit has expanded around the world in the last three decades has piqued the curiosity of practitioners and theorists alike.

Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake. This has

V.2 on CD-ROM includes: Rural finance in Azerbaijan -- Rural finance in Kazakhstan -- Rural finance in Kyrgyz Republic -- Rural finance in Mongolia -- Rural fin

Microfinance was pioneered in the developing world as the lending of small amounts of money to entrepreneurs who lacked the kinds of credentials and collateral