Financial Resources for the Poor: Focus on Credit

Book : Financial Resources for the Poor: Focus on Credit

Language : English

Library : Social Policy

Publish Place : Switzerland

ISBN : 92-2-110839-2

Volume : 4

Publish Date : January 2000

Publisher : International Labour Office (ILO)

Book Type : Booklet

Book Number : 2074

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Table of contents
List of acronyms and abbreviations Preliminary note Modular structure
A. The provision of credit services
A.1 How mainstream financial institutions exclude the poor A.2 Informal credit sources: Advantages and drawbacks
B. Alternative modalities of providing credit services
B.1 Special credit schemes run by commercial banks
B.2 Intermediary programmes
B.3 Parallel credit schemes
B.4 Alternative formal banking institutions
C. Guides for action
C.1 What has been learned?
C.2 A number of issues remain to be resolved
To summarize Bibliography